Alex Kuznetsov's team of developers are geared to doing rapid development of database applications in a busy corporate setting, yet take considerable time over meticulous database design, extensive constraints, automated tests, error logs, and defensive coding. Why? Because it cuts down on the subsequent need for maintenance.
2012-07-23
3,977 reads
Baton Rouge, LA. LSU. Free Training. Come visit, learn a few things, and enjoy meeting other SQL Server pros.
2012-07-23
1,167 reads
Find the country, region and city of a user from an IP address using SQL Server. Oscar Garcia provides some code and resources if you want to dig into your analytics on your own.
2012-07-20 (first published: 2009-07-09)
55,289 reads
Arshad Ali shows you how to create standard/custom report templates in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), to ensure consistency throughout the organization in both the look and feel of reports.
2012-07-20
3,930 reads
A look at the performance of SQL Server compared to SQLite for single user applications.
2012-07-19
7,050 reads
Annette continues her popular series for SSIS beginners by showing how a data flow task can be used in a package to move data from a SQL Server database to an Excel file, and insert an additional column into the Excel file that’s based on derived data.
2012-07-19
3,555 reads
The Checksum Transformation computes a hash value, the checksum, across one or more columns, returning the result in the Checksum output column. The transformation provides functionality similar to the T-SQL CHECKSUM function, but is encapsulated within SQL Server Integration Services, for use within the pipeline without code or a SQL Server connection. As featured in The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit by Joy Mundy and Warren Thornthwaite from the Kimbal Group.
2012-07-18
2,729 reads
When SQL Server 2008 was released the Microsoft product group came out with a new feature called "Change Data Capture" that allows you to track the changes that occur to a table. Greg Larsen gives you a primer of how to implement change data capture and how to review the captured information to produce an audit trail of the changes to a database table.
2012-07-17
3,616 reads
Even if you are not an infrastructure guy a good grasp of storage basics will stand you in good stead
2012-07-16
5,442 reads
Before you even install SQL Server, there a number of preparatory steps you need to take in order to get a new machine with a fresh copy of the operating system completely ready to install SQL Server properly. This is to maximize performance, reliability, and security.
2012-07-16
3,566 reads
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?