Quest Releases TOAD for SQL - Freeware!
Quest Software has recently released TOAD for SQL Server, a freeware version of its highly popular Oracle tool - TOAD
2004-02-17
837 reads
Articles
Changing Databases Using XML
Need to apply changes to customer (or internal) databases in a calm, controlled manner? Dinish proposes an alterative to standard scripts that uses XML and a small VB app.
2004-02-16
5,693 reads
Contest!
We've run contests from time to time over the past couple years and had a lot of fun doing it. This time we're trying something new, partnering with Red Gate. Lots of good prizes on this one!
2004-02-16
309 reads
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
8,854 reads
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
11,208 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
7,869 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
7,061 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
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers