BULK recovery mode and DBCC DBREINDEX
Will changing to bulk recovery mode before running DBCC REINDEX help you avoid large log files? András investigates
2007-10-02
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Articles
Data Warehouse Quality Assurance Best Practices
Collaboration between IT and the business will help identify the reasonable issues versus the issues that cannot be resolved for the current release of the data warehouse.
2007-10-02
2,482 reads
Monitoring Disk Space and Sending Alerts with TSQL
Haidong discusses the importance of monitoring disk usage over a period of time and has some great TSQL code to help you do the monitoring!
2007-10-01 (first published: 2003-08-13)
54,163 reads
Working Your SOX Off
The Sarbanes-Oxley act has drastically changed the jobs of many DBAs with the audit and reporting requirements this act entails. Brandie Tarvin brings us some hints about how you can go about complying with the new requirements.
2007-10-01
3,802 reads
SqlCredit – Part 9: Message Authentication Codes
This month's installment of "Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" covers searching encrypted data, dictionary attacks, and look-ups by hashed value.
2007-10-01
1,557 reads
The Puzzle of 'Rating Decomposition'
When reading rating information, how do you you knew how many points each separate voter gave if you only know the average rating and the number of votes? Well, you might be surprised to learn that you can figure it out using SQL
2007-10-01
1,919 reads
Conditional Statements in WHERE Clauses
T-SQL is a powerful language, enabling you to handle many different types of set based operations. But having flexible WHERE clauses isn't something that many DBAs deal with on a daily basis. New Author Sotiris Filippidis brings us an article on how you can structure a WHERE clause to handle all types of strange business logic without using dynamic SQL. Read on to learn more about his technique.
2007-09-28 (first published: 2004-07-26)
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Moving the SQL 2005 System Databases
Most SQL Server instances are installed with the default values, but that's not always the way it should be. Often there is the need to "move" databases to comply with standards, free up disk space, or some other reason. Moving the system databases can be a little tricky, but author Vince Iacoboni brings us his code and technique for easily doing this for SQL Server 2005 databases.
2007-09-28 (first published: 2006-09-26)
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Isolation Levels in SQL Server 2005
Isolation levels are used to prioritize the acccess to a resource. SQL Server 2005 extends upon the support for isolation levels in 2000 with several new features including an additional level.
2007-09-28
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SqlCredit Part 8: Comparing Encrypt/DecryptByCert and Encrypt/DecryptByKey
Continuing with this series looking at encryption functions.
2007-09-28
2,381 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
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It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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