Review of COMCompare by Red Gate
Andy takes a look at the third product in the popular bundle from Red Gate that does comparisons of COM components. Looks like it's easy to use and a nice tool to have around!
2002-06-18
2,910 reads
Articles
Creating your own sp_MSforeach stored procedure
This article shows you one of the most time saving stored procedure built into SQL Server and then shows you how you can modify it to affect additional objects like triggers. For example, after this article and the code in the article, you'll be able to disable every trigger in your system in one line of code.
2002-06-17
16,533 reads
Yukon Resource Center Launhced
This week, SQLServerCentral.com launched its Resource Center all about getting a sneak peak on Yukon. All links are user contributed.
2002-06-14
21 reads
SQLServerCentral.com Launches SQL Server Security Analzyer
SQLServerCentral.com launched its first online free software, which can evaluate your SQL Server remotely and look for SQL Server security vulnerabilities. This free service looks for weak or no passwords and does a basic penetration test online.
2002-06-13
58 reads
Updated Freeware Product SQLExecMS Released
Oleg Dantchenko has updated his very successful freeware product, SQLExecMS to release 1.5. The new release has a new look, more features and is perfect for rapid development and quick DBA work.
2002-06-12
61 reads
2002 SQL Server Best of Breed Product Nominations
Welcome to the first SQLServerCentral.com SQL Server Best of Breed Product Awards. These awards allow you to reward the products that you feel are the best in the SQL Server industry. These awards are user nominated and users vote for the winners.
2002-06-10
22 reads
Maintenance Plans - Backups and Removing Old Files
Andy has written several good articles for us on maintenance plans - including some stuff that makes us a little more likely to use them! This week he talks about how and when old backups are removed by maintenance plans. A page turner! Well, it's only one page, but you know what we mean!
2002-06-10
7,598 reads
Query Recompilation in SQL Server 2000
Recompilation yields superior performance in some situations, although excessive recompilation can be detrimental. This article will discuss some of these costs and benefits, and will draw on contrasts between different versions of SQL Server to provide further context for understanding recompilation.
2002-06-07
1,291 reads
Results of MCDBA Survey
Ever wonder who an MCDBA helps? Andy has posted the results of a recent survey of MCDBA's conducted by Dr. McKillip of Southern Illinois University. It's interesting reading. If you have time read and add your comments to the discussion!
2002-06-06
6,818 reads
Red-Gate Survey!
Our friends at Redgate asked us to pass this URL on to our readers. It's a very quick survey, help one our great supports by following the link!
2002-06-06
649 reads
Blogs
Upgrading SQL Server Containers on the Laptop
By Steve Jones
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How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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