Improve System Performance in Your Indexing Scheme Using Asynchronous
The Web Data Administrator is a utility program implemented in ASP.NET that enables you to easily manage your SQL data, wherever you are.
2001-10-10
1,911 reads
Articles
A Few Mathematical UDFs
Alexander Chigrik presents a few Math UDFs he has developed for common functions.
2001-10-09
6,030 reads
2001-10-08
1,980 reads
Transactional Replication Performance Tuning and Optimization
This paper examines performance in transactional replication and demonstrates ways in which you can improve the performance of your applications. (30 printed pages)
2001-10-08
1,868 reads
An Alternative Way To Get the Table's Rowcount
This article examines an alternative method for finding the rowcount of a table besides using a select count(*)
2001-10-05
4,793 reads
COM+ Application Guidelines for Visual Basic Development
This 80-page reference article presents guidelines for designing, building, and deploying COM+ applications, with an emphasis on Visual Basic.
2001-10-05
879 reads
Introduction to SQL-DMO
SQL-DMO is a pretty cool way of working with SQL Server. Never tried it? Sean Burke offers a very readable introduction to how it works.
2001-10-04
14,720 reads
More on Returning a Subset of a Recordset
Last week's tip created quite a discussion on different techniques for returning a subset of a recordset.
Here are a few of the alternative solutions offered.
2001-10-03
8,879 reads
Reattaching Databases - Some Code AND a Contest - Follow Up!
Early in September Andy posted an article that explained how to use DMO to reattach a lot of MDF's in a hurry AND challenged our readers to accomplish the same task in T-SQL. Today we announce the winning solution!
2001-10-02
5,670 reads
Update: Guide to Clustering Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000
This is an update to a recent article that provides a step-by-step guide to clustering SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000.
2001-10-02
513 reads
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Question of the Day
UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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