Where Do I Want To Go Today? - Rich Data Types
Where should SQL Server go in the future? What enhancements are needed? Steve Jones continues to explore his wish list for future versions of SQL Server.
2003-09-29
3,448 reads
Articles
Log Navigator Database Auditor Released
Log Navigator 1.0, a passive SQL auditing system that uses the SQL Server transaction log, instead of triggers, to audit data changes has been released.
2003-09-29
1,076 reads
Office Design - This is the way to do it!
Another article by Joel Spolsky, this one discusses how and why he designed new office space for his development team. Maybe a little over the top, but we think he has the right idea.
2003-09-26
1,592 reads
Upgrading from Erwin to Embarcadero?
Embarcadero is offering a 40% discount off the retail price if you upgrade from Erwin before Sep 30, 2003. Follow the link for details (subject to change!).
2003-09-26
645 reads
Full-Text Indexing Tips
This article by Jon Winer offers some tips to help you get the most of SQL Full Text Search.
2003-09-25
12,610 reads
Free SQL Functions & Stuff!
Wingenious is offering a free download of some add-in code you may find very useful! It's a subset of their DBAction product (which they you'll look at as well), but the free code is worth a look.
2003-09-24
48 reads
Using sp_addalias
SP_addalias isn't a well known stored procedure to most DBA's - do you know what it does? In what situations you might use it? This short article gives very quick and clean answers to both of those questions.
2003-09-23
9,643 reads
Where Do I Want To Go Today? - From the Field 2
Where should SQL Server go in the future? What enhancements are needed? Steve Jones takes another break from his wishes to include some more feedback from users who have some wishes of their own. Read about what real users of SQL Server would like to see included in future versions.
2003-09-22
3,568 reads
Best of SQLServerCentral.com 2002 Launch
We've had a soft launch under way for the past week, but now we'd like to sell the rest of the books stacked up at Andy's house! $15 plus shipping will get you a book that you'll be proud to put on your bookshelf. Read this to get latest pricing and answers to the most recent questions we've gotten.
2003-09-19
2,966 reads
Build a lot of DSN's in a hurry!
This article by Andy Warren offers a free utility that will generate DSN's for all or just a subset of the databases on a server in seconds.
2003-09-19
10,046 reads
Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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