Are you a new SQL Server administrator? A network admin or developer who got the responsibility for a SQL Server dropped on your head? Steve Jones starts a new series looking at a few of the things that you might want to know if you've never worked with SQL Server before.
2004-04-15
19,750 reads
Good enough for your bookshelf? This one meets that requirement for Brian, click the link to find out why.
2004-04-13
8,906 reads
According to this article Mangione will be working on security products. Paul Flessner and several other managers will take over the SQL team.
2004-04-13
69 reads
Leo reviews a new product as a follow up to his recent article about Monitoring Failed Job Steps.
2004-04-12
4,446 reads
This article shows some options to retrieve all the metadata you'll need to write scripts that write scripts. No, that's not a goof, this article is about code generation.
2004-04-09
8,671 reads
Probably not a task you'll have to do very often, all the better that someone has laid out how to do it in good detail!
2004-04-08
9,877 reads
If you are (or want to be) a power user, this book should be on your shelf. How many books have you read that have you using a debugger to step into the sql server process? James gives it a thumbs up!
2004-04-07
6,645 reads
One of the strengths of Visual Studio .NET is its features for rapid application development, or prototyping. If, for example, you want to develop a Windows form that lets you maintain the data in one table of a database, you can usually do that in 20 minutes or less. This article will show you how.
2004-04-01
294 reads
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
6,477 reads
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
9,190 reads
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For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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