Andy Warren started his worst practice series some time ago with the intention of looking at the worst things you can do. Given that we may not always be able to implement the best practices, at least we can try to avoid doing things harm the system or decrease performance. This article continues the series and looks at an item I see mentioned in our discussion forum quite often, triggering external events. From a trigger.
2004-02-23
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Press release about Embarcadero products being named finalists in the annual Jolt awards sponsored by Software Development magazine.
2004-02-23
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Reader Rob Potter suggested that our logo could use some fine tuning and graciously submitted some ideas he had for doing just that. Come take a look and tell us what you think.
2004-02-20
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It's not SQL Server related, but take a break and see how you do. The highest I've seen so far is 1602. If you beat it send a screen shot (small, please) to sjones@sqlservercentral.com
2004-02-20
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Adding a column is one of the simpler tasks you'll ever do as a DBA, yet danger lurks! All too often we add columns without going through some type of check list to make sure we're safe. What could adding a column break? You might be surprised!
2004-02-19
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Brian has been busy lately helping us with content for our magazine (you have checked out www.sqlserverstandard.com haven't you?) but he's back this week with a great write up a new product that let's you read from the transaction log.
2004-02-18
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Looking for a good (or another) TSQL reference? This might be the one. Bruce took a good look at it and points out both the good and the bad.
2004-02-17
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Quest Software has recently released TOAD for SQL Server, a freeware version of its highly popular Oracle tool - TOAD
2004-02-17
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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
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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
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If I run the REGEXP_LIKE() function, does it match values in a case-sensitive fashion, or a case-insensitive fashion by default.
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