An Interview with Louis Davidson
Want to learn more about some of your favorite authors. Check out this interview with Louis Davidson, author of Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design.
2001-08-23
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Articles
Installation Problems in SQL Server 7.0
This article examines some of the common issues that may occur when installing SQL Server 7.0
2001-08-23
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Aggregating a Set of Hierachical Records
A great deal of data in any RDBMS is hierarchial. This article presents a technique for aggregating this data.
2001-08-22
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Review: Log Explorer 2.1
Lumigent has updated their transaction log analysis tool to include a number of features that every DBA will find handy. Read this review of a great new product.
2001-08-22
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Strategies for Backing Up and Restoring Transactional Replication
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 allows you to restore transactional replication databases without reinitializing subscriptions or disabling and reconfiguring publishing and distribution. You can set up replication to work with log shipping, enabling you to use a warm standby server without reconfiguring replication.
2001-08-21
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Design Oversight - Preliminary Review
We all know what the ideal application design environment is for building a database back-end: an experienced DBA takes inputs from end users and developers and creates the database design in order to support the application being developed. But in reality, we don't get the opportunity to do application design like this very often. This article covers how to quickly find and fix problems in a design.
2001-08-20
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2001-08-20
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Recover Those Packages!
Ever need to recover a single package? Don't have local backups? Read this!!!
2001-08-16
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An interview with Robin Dewson
Want to learn more about some of your favorite authors. Check out this interview with Robin Dewson.
2001-08-15
3,432 reads
Review: Loading Sample Data with DataTect 1.6
So, you've created a database and application and want to see how it operates with a substantial load of data In this product review of Datatect 1.6, you can learn how this third-party product could help you benchmark you database with a lot of sample data.
2001-08-15
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Blogs
Performance tuning KubeVirt for SQL Server
Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server,...
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Forums
Change Tracking – Troubleshooting
I have change tracking configured in several databases, in QA and production environments, and...
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers