How many of you using SQL Server 2000 have the need to send email from SQL Server? How many of you hate Outlook? Here is a software package that can send not only HTML, but PDF as well and through SMTP. Read Hugh Scott's review and thoughts on this product.
2005-09-22
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Tried at TechEd and manned by the SQLServerCentral.com crew, this was a great idea. It's going to be at PASS and hosted by James Luetkehoelter.
2005-09-21
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Query Analyzer has been a great tool in SQL Server 2000 and while it is superceeded in SQL Server 2005, lots of us will be using it for some time to come. New author Yakov Shlafman brings us some references and tricks for this essential DBA tool.
2005-09-20
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It is just next week that the PASS 2005 Summit kicks off and we've got some information about our casino party for those attending.
2005-09-20
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There has been a lot of interest in the web-facing community lately about a new useability feature that goes by a number of different names—XMLHTTP, AJAX, out-of-band requests, and asynchronous client script callbacks, to name a few.
Regardless of the name, this feature provides a way for a standard web page to make calls back to the server, without a traditional page refresh. The user is oblivious to the fact that a server call has occurred, and is not interrupted by it.
2005-09-20
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In a followup to the recent articles and discussions on interviewing and DBA skills, Sean McCown brings us a new article that looks at one situation that resulted in a rejection. Learn what you might want to work on before your next interview.
2005-09-19
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n this lesson, we will examine another function / property in the MDX toolset, the .UniqueName function. The general purpose of the .UniqueName function is to return the Unique Name of the object to which it is appended. .UniqueName can be used in conjunction with hierarchies, dimensions, levels, and members, in a manner similar to the .Name function that we examined in String Functions: The .Name Function, and, also like .Name, .UniqueName can be useful in a host of different applications.
2005-09-19
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Last time, we discussed how to create your first report in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. The report we created was a status report on SQL Server Agent jobs. The report we created was from the template and was very crude looking because of that. In this short article, we are going to look at improving that report and answer a common newsgroup question I see. This week, we are going to set the rows of the report to alternate colors.
2005-09-16 (first published: 2004-07-06)
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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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2005-09-15
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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