Dinesh does a good write up on research he did investigating the BI market and doing a feature comparison between Oracle 9i and SQL 2000. Simple bullet point format, worth a look.
2003-05-19
19,284 reads
Brian will be writing a monthly column for us on SQL Security, definitely a hot topic these days! He starts off by discussing the need for a built in db_executor role and how to grant permissions manually to achieve the same effect. Terrific concept, as granting table access can lead to bad things! If there is a security topic you'd like to see more info on, post a note to the article or email us at articles@sqlservercentral.com.
2003-05-16
41,248 reads
Microsoft has been running 2 day seminars on Windows 2003 across the country as well as at selected Enterprise Partner sites. Steve Jones recently attended one and has a first look at the next generation of Windows Servers.
2003-05-15
5,084 reads
In this session we’ll rapidly discuss the MSCS clustering architecture and deploying the system into your environment. We’ll then jump into a demo where we actually cluster a Windows and SQL Server system in under 60 minutes. We’ll discuss the administration tools and best practices on clustering and walk you through completing a cluster and fixing problems along the way. After this session, you should have just enough information to build you own SQL Server that is highly available.
2003-05-13
893 reads
LockwoodTech has released a new version of SQLInserts with an entirely redesigned interface that supports client-side WHERE clauses, column level scripting, table level row maximums and much more.
2003-05-13
535 reads
This articles makes the case for using SQL LiteSpeed over other backup solutions and presents some notes about why the DBA should manage backups rather than offloading to network administration.
2003-05-12
5,473 reads
Seagate has a white paper out that discusses how faster (15k rpm) drives can lead to lower cost of ownership. Interesting, and worth looking into.
2003-05-08
1,600 reads
Robert is back this week with a look at the text data type. Not the easiest thing to work with, but sometimes a varchar just doesn't give you the range you need.
2003-05-07
27,640 reads
This article by Simon Galbraith (from Red Gate software, maker of SQL Compare) discusses migrating changes from development to staging, QA, and on to production. If you've never seen the need for a schema compare tool (Steve Jones!), this is worth reading.
2003-05-06
2,750 reads
New author! Mike Pearson discusses how auto close was at the root of a performance problem he was troubleshooting, how you can check your servers easily, and discusses why both auto close and auto shrink are bad ideas in a production environment.
2003-05-05
22,189 reads
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A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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