Managing Your IT Data
A new application manages data from your IT machines and software, but doesn't use a database. Steve Jones talks a little about this.
2009-01-16
88 reads
Articles
Surface Possibilities
The Surface is Microsoft's tabletop computer that can be controlled with your hands and doesn't require a keyboard. Is there value in this system for DBAs?
2009-01-16
607 reads
Surface Possibilities
The Surface is Microsoft's tabletop computer that can be controlled with your hands and doesn't require a keyboard. Is there value in this system for DBAs?
2009-01-16
839 reads
Surface Possibilities
The Surface is Microsoft's tabletop computer that can be controlled with your hands and doesn't require a keyboard. Is there value in this system for DBAs?
2009-01-16
637 reads
Use Access 2007 to Get Started in Data Mining
Learn how you can use Microsoft Access 2007 as a basic data mining tool for exploring your valuable data. This article illustrates how data filters, pivot graphs, queries in graphs and filters in reports can help this cause.
2009-01-16
2,832 reads
Generating Random Results - SQL School Video
How can you randomly generate data? MVP Andy Warren shows how in this SQL School Video.
2009-01-15
3,195 reads
Managing many SQL Servers?
Here's an article from Rudy Panigas on how to more effectively manage multiple servers.
2009-01-15
8,965 reads
Extending the REVERT statement using the WITH COOKIE clause in SQL Server 2005
In a previous tip on Switching Execution Context using the REVERT clause, you have seen how to switch execution context to a more privileged user and revert back to the original context of the caller within a programmable object. The REVERT clause accepts a parameter WITH COOKIE to provide an even more granular option. How do we use it?
2009-01-15
3,036 reads
Obtaining Index Usage Information
This article shows how the sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats DMV can be used to tune your indexes, and maximize the performance of your database
2009-01-15
2,706 reads
Checkpoints in SSIS
Integration Services has a lot of features to enable to you perform ETL operations on data moving into SQL Server. Longtime author Dinesh Asanka brings us an article on
2009-01-14
12,194 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
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Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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