Who Built This Thing?
Do the people that build SQL Server really work with it? Steve Jones shares a short story from a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest.
2008-05-19
37 reads
Articles
Who Built This Thing?
Do the people that build SQL Server really work with it? Steve Jones shares a short story from a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest.
2008-05-19
52 reads
Who Built This Thing?
Do the people that build SQL Server really work with it? Steve Jones shares a short story from a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest.
2008-05-19
41 reads
The Best Way to Find Quality People
How can you find good employees? Steve Jones offers a few tips on what has worked for him in the past.
2008-05-18
33 reads
The Best Way to Find Quality People
How can you find good employees? Steve Jones offers a few tips on what has worked for him in the past.
2008-05-18
49 reads
The Best Way to Find Quality People
How can you find good employees? Steve Jones offers a few tips on what has worked for him in the past.
2008-05-18
33 reads
Database Weekly Update for May 19, 2008
Steve Jones looks at the performance of column changes, petaflop computing, and a few ways to beef up your DBA skills.
2008-05-17
41 reads
The Database Weekly Update for May 19. 2008
Steve Jones looks at the performance of column changes, petaflop computing, and a few ways to beef up your DBA skills.
2008-05-17
38 reads
Everybody Reports to Somebody
One of the very common questions posted about T-SQL is how to traverse a hierarchy in a set based manner. New author Craig Hatley brings us his techniques for handling the common scenario of employees and managers.
2008-05-16 (first published: 2007-06-04)
5,916 reads
Recursive Queries in SQL:1999 and SQL Server 2005
How many of you have written resursive queries in SQL? Or any language since school for that matter? Not many people write recusrive queries because of the complexity, the difficulty to understand how they work, and the chance for heap overflows. However, SQL Server 2005 implements Common Table Expressions and recursion in a way that is much easier to code and incorporates some safeguards. New author SQL Server MVP Frederic Brouard has written a fantastic article looking at resursive queries.
2008-05-16 (first published: 2005-04-25)
68,277 reads
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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