One of the most popular questions on SQL Server 2000 deals with determining how much space the various tables in your database take up. There are a variety of reasons for this and a few ways to gather the information. Author Amit Lohia takes a look at how sp_spaceused works and how you might customize it to suit your needs.
2005-06-23
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We've just sent the July issue of the SQL Server Standard to the printer and it should be shipping out to you subscribers next week. The e-version should be in your virtual briefcase and it should be at the PASS and MCP sites soon. Read the editorial and see what's in this issue.
2005-06-23
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This white paper provides an introduction to various features of XQuery implemented in SQL Server 2005 such as the FLWOR statement, operators in XQuery, if-then-else construct, XML constructors, built-in XQuery functions, type casting operators, and examples of how to use each of these features. Non-supported features of XQuery in SQL Server 2005 and workarounds are described in this article. It also presents three scenarios where XQuery is useful.
2005-06-23
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Storage is getting cheaper and cheaper, which means that more and more SQL Server servers will be incorporating SAN storage as an architecture moving forward. It seems that most DBAs, however, have never worked with this technology. New author Hugh Scott brings us a primer on this Storage Area Networks for DBAs new to this technology.
2005-06-22
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While many things in technology decline in price over time, there are few things that do not, space being one of them. In response to other recent writings on the life work balance and other career articles for SQL Server DBAs, new author Sushila Iyer brings us a look at how telecommuting can be of benefit to both the DBA and the employer.
2005-06-21
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Shredding a recordset in this instance means that we are going to show you how to take a recordset produced in your SSIS package, loop over the rows in that recordset, break apart the columns and do something with them. This is really useful when you want to preform an action on a row of data for every row of data just like we are going to do here. Sure we could use an ExecuteSQL task to get the recordset as well but that does limit our choices of source data whereas doing it in the pipeline does not. Something useful we hope.
2005-06-21
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One of the most useful tasks in SQL Server 2000's DTS environment is the Dynamic Properties task. Author Kathi Kellenberger brings us a look at how this task can help you accomplish an unusal import task.
2005-06-20
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InfoPath forms can be saved to XML, these XML Files can later be used in SSIS XMLSource adapter to pull out the data in tables and columns. However, there are some common problems you may meet in these scenarios. This article describes how to work around these potential problems. The issues mentioned in this article is not only specific to InfoPath files, it can also be referenced in other similar situations as well.
2005-06-20
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Version control of stored procedures is not exactly a SQL Server 2000 strong point. In fact, it is downright abysmal and there have been lots of ideas and solutions put forth to solve the problem. Andy Warren brings us a new one that's small and lightweight and may help you after getting inspired at TechEd 2005.
2005-06-17
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Even a cursory inspection of data management practice reveals that the majority of practitioners-–be they novices, or experienced, users or vendors--operate in a “cookbook”, product-specific mode, without really knowing and understanding the fundamental concepts and principles underlying their field, e.g. what data means, what data model, database, DBMS, data independence really are, and so on.
2005-06-17
2,510 reads
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
By Steve Jones
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At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers