Reporting Services has been greatly enhanced in SQL Server 2005 and become an integral tool in many SQL Server installations. Longtime autor Raj Vasant brings us an example of how you can enhance your reports with custom coded DLLs called from within the reporting engine.
2008-01-15 (first published: 2007-03-15)
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This 3-part sponsored article surveys several different methodologies for database development, examines their strengths and weaknesses, and illustrates how Red Gate's comparison tool, SQL Compare, can be incorporated into each model.
2008-01-15 (first published: 2007-12-19)
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Longtime SQL Server guru David Poole brings us a look at one of the thorny problems a DBA faces: tracking down illicit users.
2008-01-15
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Application locks aren't a well known area of locking in SQL Server, but they can be very useful for special scenarios. They work in an analogous way to the lock() construct in .Net and are basicaly user defined mutexes in SQL Server.
2008-01-15
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The amount of data in the world grows every day and there's no end in sight. How big a problem is storage management? Steve Jones shares a few thoughts on how you might manage your storage.
2008-01-15
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The amount of data in the world grows every day and there's no end in sight. How big a problem is storage management? Steve Jones shares a few thoughts on how you might manage your storage.
2008-01-15
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The amount of data in the world grows every day and there's no end in sight. How big a problem is storage management? Steve Jones shares a few thoughts on how you might manage your storage.
2008-01-15
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An offer from Red Gate for free downloadable posters. You can print them out and decorate your cube, showing some great disaster recovery tips from MVP Brad McGehee.
2008-01-15
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It would be wonderful to be able to simple purchase a tool or technology and have your data challenges disappear. It is time to step back and take a much needed different look at data.
2008-01-15
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SQL Server 2000 replication is usually simple and easy to setup and work with. However there are many restrictions to ensure this, one of which is the alteration of a column which is engaged in replication. Author Paul Ibison brings us two options for altering columns.
2008-01-14 (first published: 2005-01-19)
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Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022 ...
By Steve Jones
Last week I spent a few days in Cambridge, UK for the Redgate Company...
By Steve Jones
Recently I had someone internally ask about whether SQL Source Control supports Git Hooks....
I'm running a group MSA for the database engine and SQL Agent in a...
All, My query is as follows: SET DATEFORMAT dmy SELECT p.query_id, DATEADD(MICROSECOND,-rs.max_duration,rs.first_execution_time) AS starttime,...
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