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2004-07-07
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SQL Server Express 2005 is a new product that has been released (in Beta) as a followon to the MSDE product. A number of new features as well as complementary products for all of the .NET development tools are now available. Read on for a quick summary of what this new product line is all about.
2004-07-02
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Using sysforeignkeys to discover SQL Server circular relationships. Have you ever tried this? Most of us probably haven't, but Jeffrey Yao often needs to reverse engineer databases for his clients. Here's a followup to his first article where he presents another of his techniques for doing a little detective work in your databases.
2004-06-30
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SQL Server has a great backup and recovery architecture, but you have to know how to properly configure and use the server to ensure that you will not be seeking new employment anytime soon. A few of the Sonasoft team have written this short piece on strategies for setting up your backup jobs to ensure recovery in the event of a disaster. Welcome new authors Bilal Ahmed, Kiran Kumar, and Vas Srinivasan.
2004-06-29
19,350 reads
SQL Server has an abundance of third party tools, more being developed everyday. Indepth for SQL Server allows you to monitor the performance and activity on your SQL Server. New author Hiram Khakharia looks at this product from Veritas.
2004-06-25
5,024 reads
A key service pack has now been released for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. This one adds key enhancements and fixes many bugs.
2004-06-25
1,937 reads
The Unique Identifier datatype in SQL Server has tremendous potential to solve many of the issues one finds with Identity fields, other primary keys, etc. However it also has some drawbacks and limitations. Author Sharad Nandwani looks at some of the pros and cons of this datatype.
2004-06-24
14,032 reads
How many of you dig into Windows XP extensively? Working with hardware and the OS isn't something that many DBAs deal with these days. Most companies have an admin to work on servers, hardware, workstations, etc. But sometimes you need to help yourself out. Steve Jones had to work to get his laptop back after an XP disaster. Read on and hopefully this will help you one day recover your system.
2004-06-23
5,908 reads
In this follow up Andy looks into some of the options available when you're dealing with situations where you're joining a case sensitive column to a case insensitive column. We think after reading this you'll be ready to just say no!
2004-06-22
8,365 reads
SQL Server backups are rock solid. But checking them is another matter and something that every DBA is responsible for doing. Another followup article by new Author Kevin O'Donovan to the issue of looking at which database
2004-06-21
6,801 reads
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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