We will continue our review of Foreach enumerators starting with Foreach ADO, since this one probably qualifies as the most popular choice in its category. This is due to the fact that ADO recordsets offer a convenient way of dealing with data sources, regardless of their type (for example, within SSIS, you can easily populate a recordset by executing a SQL query or by reading the content of a flat file)
2005-08-01
1,791 reads
Most skilled professionals—be they butchers, bakers or software makers—take pride in selecting their own tools of the trade. Why is it then that developers and DBAs in large corporations often are not afforded the same professional courtesy or opportunity? The tools they use are just as vital to their livelihood, yet when it comes to high-cost software, developers and DBAs often have no input into what is purchased for their use.
2005-07-29
2,572 reads
Who builds SQL Server? It's an interesting collection of individuals and we're looking to bring you some profiles of them all. In the first installment of this series Steve Jones interviews Euan Garden, longtime member of the team.
2005-07-28
4,357 reads
This article discusses three common problems DBAs are likely to encounter when columns have the identity property, which is defined as an attribute of int, smallint, bigint, decimal, numeric or tinyint columns that will auto-increment their value when data is inserted. These problems are humorously referred to as the identity crisis.
2005-07-28
3,765 reads
We are sorry to say that a case of plagiarism occurred recently and SQLServerCentral.com is issuing an apology to Ken Henderson.
2005-07-27
16,156 reads
A SQL Server DBA seems to be a stable job and many of us stick with the same job for an above average length of time. However employee retention in general is important to a strong and healthy company. Steve Jones starts a new series looking at this topic and why an employer might want to worry about retention.
2005-07-27
12,920 reads
Programmers, webmasters, Web services developers and database administrators (DBAs) are not strangers to the "Can we have it tomorrow?" request. That's why software and web developers have embraced a continuous stream of silver bullet technologies that promised to accelerate development. The developer community has experienced "web time", object-oriented programming (OOP), rapid application development (RAD), "extreme programming" and "agile development". Accelerated development schedules put a premium on understanding architecture and knowing how to match the tools to the job. That means understanding today's model of applications as services and what role a database can play. If you understand SQL technology, for example, you can adapt databases to application and service requirements by embedding logic in a database.
2005-07-27
2,811 reads
How many times have you wished you could throttle the CPU use of SQL Server? Or for a database? Prevent your developers from using too many resources while sharing the server with production or QA. ArmTech for Windows can do this and Dinsesh Asanka brings us a review of how this product worked in his environment.
2005-07-26
5,477 reads
Just a little older than SQLServerCentral.com, SQLTeam.com has been another great community for SQL Server developers. A look back from Bill Granazio
2005-07-26
1,913 reads
Moving DTS Packages from one SQL Server 2000 server to another can be a real hassle. There are any number of issues that occur whenever you seek to use a package on different servers. New author Jonathan Stokes brings us a technique he's used many times to build portable DTS packages.
2005-07-25
11,524 reads
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
By Steve Jones
This is from 2010, but I loved that people felt this way about Redgate...
Yes, you’re reading that right, we’re going to download a report that cannot be...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Poor Name Choice
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Getting the Indexed Columns
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers