Changing Taxonomy
Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
2008-12-27
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Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
2008-12-27
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Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
2008-12-27
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Steve Jones wonders if Microsoft is doing a good job with their efforts to patch SQL Server security issues?
2008-12-27
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SSIS has a problem with stored procedures that use temporary tables to generate output. This article describes a useful technique for working around this problem.
2008-12-26
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When creating tables it is difficult to determine exactly how the data will be accessed. Therefore when clustered indexes are chosen they are often just the ID column that makes the row unique. This may be a good choice, but once the application has been used and data access statistics are available you may need to go back and make some adjustments to your tables to ensure your clustered indexes are providing a benefit and not a drain on your applications.
2008-12-26
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Steve Jones wonders if Microsoft is doing a good job with their efforts to patch SQL Server security issues?
2008-12-26
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This article describes the new Peer-to-Peer replication features in SQL Server 2008
2008-12-26
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Steve Jones wishes the SQLServerCentral community a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!
2008-12-25
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2008-12-25
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We use the FTP task in SSIS to process a number of files from an FTP server. We would like to implement a step in our SSIS packages that would retrieve the list of files that are available on the FTP server before we try to process them.
2008-12-24
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By Steve Jones
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By Chris Yates
The New Arena of Leadership The role of the Chief Data Officer is no...
Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Lessons from the Postmark-MCP Backdoor
Just saw the "Azure Extension for SQL Server" Does anyone has experience with it?...
I've noticed several instances of what looks like a recursive insert with the format:...
I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( TravelLogID, CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17') SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFFI now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog) GO INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17') GOWhat is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025? See possible answers