SQL Saturday #133 - Costa Rica
A free day of training in Costa Rica on Apr 14, 2012. If you are near San Jose, sign up today.
2012-04-02
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Articles
The SQL Saturday Australia Tour
Free days of training in Australia during the spring of 2012. Apr 12 in Brisbane, Apr 14 in Wellinton, Apr 19 in Canberra, Apr 21 in Sydney, Apr 24 in Adelaide, and Apr 28 in Perth.
2012-04-02 (first published: 2012-03-19)
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How to create a database backup using visual studio
This article describes how to backup a database using a C# Windows Form.
2012-03-30
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2012-03-30
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2012-03-30
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World Backup Day
This Saturday is World Backup Day, and with this in mind, Red Gate's Brian Harris talks about SQL Backup 7 and why they want to make backup verification a focus for more DBAs.
2012-03-30
1,962 reads
A Variety of SQL Rally Pre-Cons
The 2012 SQL Rally is coming in May to Dallas, TX and there are a number of pre-conference sessions that can help you learn about something that interests you at an inexpensive price.
2012-03-29
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Get Back into SQL Server After You've Locked Yourself Out
Someone, while locking down the SQL Server, removed the permissions by which the DBAs came in and administered the server. As a result, we cannot get back into SQL Server. How can we restore our access to SQL Server? Check out this tip to find out.
2012-03-29
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Basics of XML and SQL Server, Part 4: Create an XML invoice with SSIS
This article demonstrates how to build an SSIS package that generates an XML invoice document from data stored in SQL Server and saves it to an XML file.
2012-03-28
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Storing E-mail addresses more efficiently in SQL Server
A lot of people are storing large quantities of e-mail addresses in their systems. Since a large percentage of any system's user base is going to be supplying e-mail addresses from a few of the vastly popular providers (such as GMail and Hotmail), we are storing the "@gmail.com" and "@hotmail.com" parts of those addresses on disk over and over and over again.
2012-03-27
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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