This is the first in a four-part series on the new AlwaysOn feature in SQL Server 2012. In this article, AlwaysOn is introduced and contrasted with previous high-availability solutions in SQL Server. The second part of the series will commence with a detailed walkthrough on preparing the environment for AlwaysOn
2012-03-15
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In Part 2 of this series we will shred an XML document and insert its records into a SQL Server table using both the OpenXML and XQuery methods.
2012-03-14
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If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.
2012-03-14
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Find out what SQL Source Control & SQL Compare can do for your database development and deployment processes at one of our free weekly webinars. Each webinar includes a 30 minute software demonstration and a Q&A session.
2012-03-14 (first published: 2012-01-10)
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2012-03-13
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Learn how to pull the month names in a report drop down using a recursive common table expression (CTE).
2012-03-13
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I have transactional replication configured in production. The business team has a requirement to rename the subscription database. Is it possible to rename the subscription database and ensure that transactional replication will continue to function as before? If so, how could we achieve this?
2012-03-13
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In this article we will see how to rebuild system databases in SQL Server 2008 cluster that is failed to restart.
2012-03-12
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Developers targeting the SQL Azure platform should make sure their applications are secure. This article walks through the considerations developers need to keep in mind when designing SQL Azure applications.
2012-03-12
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The first SQL Saturday in Ireland on Mar 24, 2012. Come get a free day of SQL Server training.
2012-03-12
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By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
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I have some data in a SQL Server 2025 database. It looks like this for the dbo.Customer table:
CustomerID CustomerName PreferredName 1 Steve Steve 2 Andy Andy 3 Brian Brian 4 Allan Allan 5 Devin Devin 6 Steve Steve 7 Sally SallyI want to detect which names have a single trailing space. The CustomerName is a varchar() and the PreferredName is a CHAR(). Does this query detect the problem rows?
SELECT
CustomerID,
CustomerName,
PreferredName
FROM Customer
WHERE CustomerName <> RTRIM(CustomerName)
OR PreferredName <> RTRIM(PreferredName); See possible answers