In order for a transaction to meet the requirements of ACID, locks are employed to insure data integrity and multi-user access. The scope, or number of rows held by a lock, is referred to as Lock Granularity. This month, we will begin by introducing several different types of lock modes employed by MS SQL.
2005-09-16
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Less than two weeks away, sessions tried and tested at the PDC, the Microsoft SQL Server development team and gambling with SQLServerCentral.com! Register today!
2005-09-15
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Continuing on an interview with Raj Gill, SQL Server 2005 Roadshow Presenter by Robert Pearl. Get inside the mind of the co-founder of Scalability Experts.
2005-09-15
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Confidential until the official release at 9:00am Pacific Time today. Check back after that time to get the big news!
2005-09-14
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If you are working with SQL Server 2005, you really need Visual Studio 2005 as well. And since they are both in Beta, there are some interesting issues when installing both of these pre-products. New author David Russell brings us some technical notes he made while installing both of these many times in a corporate environment.
2005-09-14
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You may never need to work with them, but if you do then you will quickly realize how complicated barcodes can be. Michael Coles recently had a project and developer a toolkit to actually print barcodes from SQL Server.
2005-09-13
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The regular expression transformation exposes the power of regular expression matching within the pipeline. One or more columns can be selected, and for each column an individual expression can be applied. If all columns selected pass their tests then rows are passed down the successful match output. Rows that fail to pass all tests are directed down the alternate output.
2005-09-13
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Clustering, partitioning, database snapshots, database mirroring, SQL Server SAN storage design and more are all in the September issue of the SQL Server Standard.
2005-09-12
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SQL Server 2000 has a fantastic subsystem for alerting the DBA and keeping him or her informed as to the state of the server. However the email subsystem introduces a dependency on Outlook for alerts that can be a problem for some environments. Author Roy Carlson brings us an ingenious method for reading logs and sending alerts without Exchange or Outlook.
2005-09-12
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Hopefully you've heard about Reporting Services. But have you tried it? James says you'll be sorry if you don't read the docs first! Reporting is something every enterprise struggles with, maybe this will make things better? Here's how to get started.
2005-09-09 (first published: 2004-03-04)
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Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
By Chris Yates
When Microsoft announced SQL Server 2025, I was curious about what would truly change...
By Steve Jones
Redgate has a research arm, called the Foundry, that has been experimenting with AIs...
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