Worst Practices - Assigning Users Rights
Continuing with Andy Warren's series on Worst Practices for a DBA, Steve Jones joins in this week with his worst practice.
2001-11-06
7,248 reads
Articles
DBA Job Description: What type of DBA are you?
One of the common questions that Brian Knight sees in the newsgroups is what is a DBA officially supposed to be doing? In this article, Brian covers the many hats a DBA can and does wear.
2001-11-05
19,680 reads
Certification Counterpoint - Why You Should NOT Certity
In this article, Andy Warren presents his views on why obtaining certification is not a good idea. Read this one and the one by Steve Jones that supports certification - which has the more compelling argument
2001-11-04
6,210 reads
Certification Should Be Required
Steve Jones presents his case for why certifications should be required. Read this and the counter point article by Andy Warren to hear the other side of this argument - then post your comments
2001-11-04
5,627 reads
2001-11-02
1,265 reads
XML for SQL Server 2000: Optimizing Your Performance
The XML features of Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000 and the subsequent XML for SQL Server 2000 Web releases enable a whole new class of XML-aware applications. This article shows you how to improve the performance of this new feature.
2001-11-01
2,241 reads
Review of Data Compare v.151
In this product review Andy takes a look at Data Compare, the second of three products in the SQL Bundle available from Red-Gate software. It's a very handy program that lets you compare data between two tables and optionally generate sql statements to syncronize the data. An interesting alternative to replication!
2001-10-31
8,802 reads
Allowing BULK INSERT for non-SysAdmin Users in SQL 7.0
One of the largest security "issues" in SQL Server 7.0 is that a user must be in the SysAdmin role to run the BULK INSERT command. This article by Paul Ibison shows you a workaround.
2001-10-30
6,181 reads
SQL Server 6.5: Index Statistic Details
This article examines how index statistics are used in SQL Server 6.5
2001-10-30
3,315 reads
SQLXML 2.0 (XML for SQL Server 2000)
Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 introduced several new features for querying database tables and receiving the results as an XML document. Web release 1 of SQLXML (XML for SQL Server) added Updategrams and XML Bulk Load functionality, as well as a host of other features to the SQL Server 2000 base.
2001-10-29
6,623 reads
Blogs
Deploying an Updated Model with SQL Compare 16
By Steve Jones
In a previous post, I deployed a model to a database using SQL Compare...
Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022
By SQLPals
Reality (And Limits) of Instant File Initialization for Transaction Logs in SQL Server 2022 ...
Looking Back at the Redgate 2026 Company Kickoff
By Steve Jones
Last week I spent a few days in Cambridge, UK for the Redgate Company...
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Adding and Dropping Columns II
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) , [Country2] [char] (3), [stateprovince2] [char] (2), [Country] [char] (3), [stateprovince] [char] ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to drop the stateprovince2 and country2 columns. What code should I use? See possible answers