Where does Access fit in Microsoft’s future?
Where does Access fit in Microsoft’s future? Before that question is answered, we should examine why it might be important.
2005-11-08
5,350 reads
Articles
Cryptography In The Database
Cryptography and encryption are coming to many systems, including databases. Check out a sample chapter from this upcoming book.
2005-11-07
3,833 reads
More Intelligent Backup and Restore
Backups and restores are two fundamental tasks that a DBA must perform correctly. But remembering the syntax, options, decoding filenames, etc. can often be busy work that leaves a DBA open to mistakes. New author Vince Iacoboni brings us his code and techniques for a set of stored procedures to make handling backups and restores very simple.
2005-11-07
13,498 reads
SSL Certificates on SQL Server 2005 for Reporting Services
If you are deploying Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005, you may run into an issue when installing an SSL certificate. David Russell brings us some information on what could happen and how to successfully install.
2005-11-07
13,719 reads
Review of AdventNet SwisSQL Sybase to SQL Server Migration Tool 2.1
Now it's time to review yet another migration related product from AdventNet. It is called "AdventNet SwisSQL Sybase to SQL Server Migration Tool 2.1". As the name suggests, this migration product automates the conversion of Sybase ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) T-SQL stored procedures, inbuilt functions, triggers, tables, views, and other database objects to Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL.
2005-11-04
1,103 reads
Finding the Next Business Day Recursively
How do you find the next business day? What is a next business day? Holidays, country specific issues, etc. all come into play with many business functions and it can be a complicated process. New author Rob Scholl brings us a recursive function in TSQL to help solve this problem.
2005-11-03
13,599 reads
November SQL Server Standard - Business Intelligence
The November issue of the SQL Server Standard is out and being mailed to everyone. Read the editorial and get the table of contents.
2005-11-03
3,300 reads
2005-11-03
3,365 reads
SQL Server 2005 Adoption Rates
How many people are getting ready to upgrade to SQL Server 2005? Why are they upgrading? Why not? Edgewood Solutions conducted a survey and the results are in. Read on for the executive overview and learn how to get a complete copy of the results.
2005-11-02
5,273 reads
SSIS - Reusable Benchmark Harness
We all know testing is important, but face it, testing is not the highlight of anyone's daily work. And more important than testing your code the first time is regression testing after you have fixed a few bugs. Kristian Wedberg brings us a new article that uses SSIS to build a harness that allows repeatable testing of code and applying benchmarks to be sure that things are working as expected.
2005-11-02
8,251 reads
Blogs
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I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
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Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers