Cascading Updates and Deletes, introduced with SQL Server 2000, were such an important, crucial feature that it is hard to imagine providing referential integrity without them. One of the new features in SQL Server 2005 that hasn't gotten a lot of press from what I've read is the new options for the ON DELETE and ON UPDATE clauses: SET NULL and SET DEFAULT. Let's take a look!
2008-08-28
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SQL Server makes it very easy for anyone to create a database. However it's worth spending a few minutes thinking about how you plan a database and SQL Server trainer Andy Warren brings us some thoughts on the subject.
2008-08-27
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Learn how to discover the TCP port for a SQL Server instance from the registry using Windows Powershell.
2008-08-27
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This bi-monthly update on energy news covers quite a bit of wind-related power generation happening around the world.
2008-08-27
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This bi-monthly update on energy news covers quite a bit of wind-related power generation happening around the world.
2008-08-27
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This bi-monthly update on energy news covers quite a bit of wind-related power generation happening around the world.
2008-08-27
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Here's how to use full-text search in SQL Server when querying exact SQL expressions that include symbols. Use these steps to search symbols in SQL with these steps.
2008-08-27
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MVP Brian Knight walks through the scripting capabilities of Management Studio to show how the code for table creation and the various dependent objects. Brian looks at the options available with scripting and what the implication of choosing them will be.
2008-08-26
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Not everyone who had to use Management Studio when it first appeared in SQL Server 2005 liked it. The paint was still wet and there was still scaffolding around. To give Microsoft its credit, it has succeeded in transforming it into a much more useful product, in its SQL Server 2008 reincarnation.
2008-08-26
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Data modeling is based on the precept of knowing your data and knowing how the data is interrelated with other data. Everyone knows their data – right? If so, then why do we have so many problems building systems that do what the users want?
2008-08-26
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By Steve Jones
Leave a gate behind you the way you first found it. – from Excellent...
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Fix Slow, Bloated MSDB: Purge Old History And Add Missing Indexes ...
By James Serra
Organizations increasingly want Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric to coexist without duplicating data or fragmenting...
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If I have a fillfactor set to 70%, this reduces my page density to roughly 70%. Does this affect the query plans that the optimizer chooses?
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