Even where Source Control isn't being used by developers, it is still possible to automate the process of tracking the changes being made to a database and put those into Source Control, in order to track what changed and when. You can even get an email alert when it happens. With suitable scripting, you can even do it if you don't have direct access to the live database. Grant shows how easy this is with SQL Compare.
2011-10-20
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On Thursday October 20th ,MVP Louis Davidson will discuss the why normalized databases are the most important part of query tuning
2011-10-20
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A lively comparison of Pascal's triangle to root cause analysis from David Poole.
2011-10-19
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Do you find yourself managing lots of SQL Server instances? If so you might find you are connected to many different instances and have numerous query windows open that are connected to different instances. When you have lots of query windows open, do you sometimes find it confusing to know the instance in which your query window is connected? Color-coding your connections can help you manage complicated setups.
2011-10-19
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On Thursday October 20th, MVP Louis Davidson will discuss the why normalized databases are the most important part of query tuning.
2011-10-19
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In finance, when pricing data isn't available on last day of week, month or year, calculating returns is tricky. This article addresses the issue.
2011-10-18
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2011-10-18 (first published: 2009-12-23)
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Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) was introduced in Windows 2003 to improve Windows scalability to handle heavy network traffic, which is typically the case for SQL Server OLTP workload. This post helps you get the most out of the feature.
2011-10-18
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This challenge invites you to identify the largest sequence of alphabets from a string.
2011-10-17
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Unlike the hierarchical database model, which created a tree structure in which to store data, the network model formed a generalized 'graph' structure that describes the relationships between the nodes. Nowadays, the relational model is used to solve the problems for which the network model was created, but the old 'network' solutions are still being implemented by programmers, even when they are less effective.
2011-10-17
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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