If your organization is like many organizations, it may have some older version SQL Server clusters in production. If so, at some point you will have to make a choice about how to upgrade them to SQL Server 2005.
2007-03-01
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The depths of the storage engine must be some interesting places and we dive a little into them with our look at Santeri Voutilainen, one of the very talented SQL Server engineers who worked on the lock manager.
2007-02-28
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If you are near Rhode Island, there's a new user group available with SQL Server Guru Grant Fritchey presenting.
2007-02-28
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In most relational database implementations. Update and Delete commands destroy the data that was there prior to their issue. However, some systems require that no information is ever physically deleted from or updated in the database. In this article, Arthur Fuller presents a solution to this requirement in the form of a Point-in-Time architecture: a database design which allows a user to recreate an image of the database as it existed at any previous point in time, without destroying the current image.
2007-02-28
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This article covers the basics of full backup backups and restores in SQL Server. The examples are from SQL Server 2005 however it applies to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. This is a very basic article covering full database backups, database restores and the simple and full recovery models.
2007-02-27
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In SQL Server 2005, there is a new feature called Plan Guides that can help out in some cases where you discover poorly performing queries that you don't have direct control over. Essentially, a Plan Guide allows you to add or modify query hints to queries on the fly, just before they are executed.
2007-02-26
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All the hype that once surrounded XML is finally starting to die down, and developers are really beginning to harness the power and flexibility of the language. XML is a data descriptive language that uses a set of user-defined tags to describe data in a hierarchically-structured format.
2007-02-23
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While SQL Server 2005 has greatly expanded the XML capabilities of the platform, many DBAs are still not familiar with or comfortable
with using XML in their coding. Yousef Ekhtiari brings us a new article that looks at a basic use of XML in inserting data into a table.
2007-02-22
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XML support has been significantly extended for SQL Server 2005. In this article, Tim Chapman takes a look at how you can shred XML data into a relational format with SQL Server's OPENXML function.
2007-02-22
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Microsoft has finally release service pack 2 for SQL Server 2005. Read a short commentary and get the links to download it now.
2007-02-21
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Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers