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Islands and Gaps in Sequential Numbers

As you know, relational databases are set-based and aren't particularly suited for row-at-a-time processing. However, in situations with heavily fragmented data (lots of gaps), you may find that row-based processing does better than set-based processing. Alexander Kozak demonstrates.

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2004-10-12

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Incident Response - Responding to an Incident

Part 2 of Steve Jones' Incident Response series that looks at how you should be prepared as well as what to do when disaster strikes. Part 1 established a basic framework and part 2 dives deeper into what you might need for the next virus, hardware failure, or hurricane :(.

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2004-10-11

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SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting

The SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Financial Reporting is a set of six Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with a sample financial database called FinSampleDB.

With the Report Pack, you have the choice of using the sample reports either as-is or as templates for designing new reports using the SQL Server Reporting Services Report Designer.

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2004-10-11

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SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft Exchange

The SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft Exchange is a set of 13 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with a Microsoft Exchange sample reporting database.

With the Report Pack, you have the choice of using the sample reports either as-is or as templates for designing new reports using the SQL Server Reporting Services Report Designer.

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2004-10-08

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Review: Typhon III from NGSSoftware

Every shop with any sort of IT organization should be scanning for vulnerabilities and issues with their systems and SQL Server is no exception. Security software vendor has a tool that can scan and report on all your SQL Servers is an easy to use product called Typhon III. Our security expert Brian Kelley takes a look at this product.

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2004-10-07

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Analysis About Analysis Services

SQL Server is an amazing business intelligence platforum, including many tools that other vendors force you to buy separately. New Author Ramunas Balukonis is working with this platform and has built a system that helps him perform analysis on just what his Analysis Server is doing.

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2004-10-06

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Optimized ADO.NET

This article contains guidelines compiled by examining the .NET implementations of shipping .NET applications and analyzing the common performance mistakes that we found. The guidelines discuss selecting .NET objects and methods, designing .NET applications, retrieving data, and updating data.

2004-10-06

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Tracking All the Queries

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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