2001-09-26
3,387 reads
Articles
The Sysadmin Price List
Implement this and I guarentee your tech support call volume will drop!!! (Or you'll soon be retiring)
2001-09-25
2,809 reads
Introducing IQReference
IQReference is an online reference platform using well known, published materials. Read about this exciting and benefical product.
2001-09-24
3,169 reads
Managing Spatial Information with SQL Server
You already know how to use SQL Server to manage your core business data, now learn how to leverage this knowledge to manage your "spatial" data.
DATE: September 25, 2001
TIME: 2:00pm ET, 6:00pm GMT
DURATION: 40 minutes, including questions & answers at the end
With SpatialWare for SQLServer, you now have the ability to manipulate spatial objects and store them inside of SQL Server allowing you to share information across the enterprise.
2001-09-24
52 reads
Undocumented Stored Procedures in SQL Server 6.5
This article examines some useful undocumented stored procedures in SQL Server 6.5
2001-09-21
3,310 reads
SQL Server Security Best Practices
Learn how to secure your data by implementing SQL Server security best practices.
2001-09-20
3,675 reads
Find The Baseball Players
Or how to query for a particular type of customer. This article examines how you may query for particular rows that match one condition, but may not match another.
2001-09-19
3,745 reads
Funny SQL Server Error Messages
This is the funniest error message Brian Knight has ever seen in SQL Server.
2001-09-18
7,267 reads
Using Uniqueindentifier Instead of Identity
Identity columns are last years news. Have you experimented with uniqueindentifiers - better known to programmers as GUID's? Guaranteed to be unique in the world, they offer a powerful alternative to identity columns.
2001-09-17
11,511 reads
DBCC SQLPERF (Logspace) Reporting Internals
This is a broad overview of the DBCC SQLPERF command primarily for version 7 and 2000.
2001-09-17
1,927 reads
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers