Do you have the need for more speed on your servers? How do you go about squeezing more speed out of the database when faced with an upgrade? Steve Jones walks through some of his thought process when looking at ugprade for one of his servers.
2004-03-30
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As Jeff says, "There are lots of articles about how to do auditing, but there are few discussions about how to use the auditing results in a real time environment". Well, now we have one that shows you how to do it!
2004-03-29
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Nice write up on the Admin Companion. Should you add it to your bookshelf? Frank offers his frank opinion.
2004-03-26
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Continuing Steve Jones' series on string manipulation in T-SQL, this article examines how quotations are handled in T-SQL.
2004-03-25
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It's not often you'll need to access the registry from SQL, but when you do - these functions make it happen!
2004-03-23
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A week ago, we solicited readers to let Microsoft know which of the SQL Server 2005 announced features mattered most to them. We had a great response, with 890 of you answering the survey in three days. The answers were pretty interesting. The full results can be seen at the bottom of this article.
2004-03-22
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Some good info on password changes in Yukon (SQL 2005). Based on the beta, but worth taking a look at.
2004-03-19
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Dinesh did a little research on nulls and was kind enough to package it up for us. How many of you know or use NULLIF? Or COALESCE? Handy stuff!
2004-03-18
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We saw a note from Chad about a tool he wrote in the forums and asked him to write up some notes. Not only did we get notes, we got the source code! See what a DBA can do with some DMO.
2004-03-17
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We get books in occasionally for review and have started making them available to our existing authors. Jim was interested in this one - turns out he didn't find much to like. If you're a beginner it might be a better fit. Or maybe you've read the book and disagree?
2004-03-16
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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...
By Steve Jones
Today I’m in San Francisco at Small Data SF 2025. I went to the...
Not sure if this is a tech mistake I've made or a lack of...
Several times now, I've seen a post asking for a solution. I've replied, and...
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