Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
2008-10-23
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Articles
Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
2008-10-23
70 reads
Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
2008-10-23
68 reads
Audit data using SQL Server 2005's COLUMNS_UPDATED function
Auditing data changes in your production environment is very important, especially if you are dealing with confidential information.
2008-10-23
4,223 reads
Auto generated SQL Server keys - uniqueidentifier or IDENTITY
I'm designing a table and I've decided to create an auto-generated primary key value as opposed to creating my own scheme or using natural keys. I see that SQL Server offers globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) as well as identities to create these values. What are the pros and cons of these approaches?
2008-10-23
5,803 reads
Fast Project Rollbacks
When a project is completed, one of the next steps is to roll this project out to the production environment. However a good rollback process is important to ensure that you can remove those changes if there are problems. Longtime author David Poole talks about how he handles this.
2008-10-22
3,971 reads
A Virtual Database World
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
2008-10-22
71 reads
A Virtual Database World
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
2008-10-22
76 reads
A Virtual Database World
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
2008-10-22
57 reads
Filtered Indexes in SQL Server 2008
This article demonstrates the performance improvements that can be achieved using Filtered Indexes in SQL server 2008
2008-10-22
2,688 reads
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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