Review of Lumigent Log Explorer v4
Chris (one of our regulars!) installed Log Explorer and took it for a test drive. Written up in our standard review format this will give you a very quick overview of what the product does.
2004-02-13
8,843 reads
Articles
An Introduction to Database Models
Frank returns this week with a good non academic overview of the different types of database models and some of the features/problems that are native to each.
2004-02-12
11,186 reads
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Performance Guide
Analysis Services is slowly gaining in popularity and many of you might get drawn into setting up a server or developing a system based on this technology. Microsoft has released a performance guide to help you take performance into consideration from the beginning.
2004-02-11
1,221 reads
Optimize Your Applications
This article demonstrates that one way to optimize the data access portion of your app is to do the query once and cache the results. This is not advanced caching just something to get you started thinking about the possibilities.
2004-02-10
7,866 reads
SQL Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer Beta
Microsoft has released a new tool to analyzer your SQL Servers and see how they conform to their list of common best practices. Give it a try and let us know what you think.
2004-02-10
3,515 reads
Viewing the Hierarchy of Stored Procedures
In this short article that follows up on an earlier one that discussed dependency issues we have some code that will generate simple treeview type view of the relationships between procs. Mostly code, more so than usual, but we thought you might find the idea useful!
2004-02-09
7,043 reads
Delphi Code Generator
You point this application at a database and it generates a code unti that allows you to easily execute stored procedures and functions from Delphi. (Not Reviewed)
2004-02-09
1,528 reads
Uses For Derived Tables
In this article by Robert Marda, he shows you how to use derived tables to solve some of SQL's problems.
2004-02-06
17,757 reads
A Grain of Salt
At a recent seminar, Steve Jones heard a quote that really struck home. Especially in the computer business. Read on about a look at a DBAs take on listening to what you hear and being a little cautious in how you interpret it.
2004-02-05
4,524 reads
Snapshot Replication for the Beginner - Part 2
This article covers how to build the snapshot subscription without getting bogged down in too many low level details. You'll learn enough here to get started experimenting and get results. Depending on comments from you, we may ask Andy to move on to transactional replication or to dig deeper into snapshot options. Tell us what you think!
2004-02-04
7,742 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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