Looking for Work in SQL Server
How can you find a SQL Server job? Craig Farrell brings us an article that shows how you can look for a job and get an interview whether you have very little, or years of experience.
2011-05-09
9,537 reads
Articles
There cometh a shower
Phil Factor speculates on the damage caused to Cloud providers by the Amazon and Sony Outages.
2011-05-09
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Find SQL Server databases where log file is too large
I support thousands of databases and I'm running across situations where I have a database that has a data file of a couple hundred megabytes and the associated log file is gigabytes in size! I understand this is because I may not have my transaction log backups scheduled properly. What I'm interested in is an easy way to identify these situations where the SQL log file is too large, so I can go in and further analyze these problem databases without needing to look at each database.
2011-05-09
5,073 reads
Trading in xp_cmdshell for SQLCLR (Part 2) - Export Data to Flat Files
Learn how SQLCLR can be used to replace BCP and xp_cmdshell to export data to comma separated and tab delimited flat files.
2011-05-06 (first published: 2009-03-03)
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How to remove parent as a child from a SSAS parent child dimension
In a parent child dimension, when an attribute's usage type is set as Parent and browsed from a client tool, many designers as well as users may get confused based on the displayed results. For example, when you browse a parent attribute in a parent child dimension like Employee and say the parent attribute is Employees, you can browse data members from the parent node until the deepest available level of the child node. By default you will find each parent member having a child member with the same name even though this member might not exist in the data. From a user experience point of view this is not a desirable way of browsing a parent child hierarchy because it may get confusing. In this tip we will look at an example of this issue and how to solve this problem.
2011-05-06
2,757 reads
More SQL Server 2008 Installation Issues
Robert Pearl brings us a few more potential SQL Server 2008 installation issues on Windows 7 and a few workarounds that might help you get around them.
2011-05-05
5,563 reads
Obtaining Identity Column Values in SQL Server
When you enter a new record into a table that contains an identity column, the identity value will be set with the next available value. Your database design often requires you to obtain that value, so you need to be able to find it.
2011-05-05
5,354 reads
TempDB Deleted Accidentally
TempDB is the ALU of the SQL Server and if somehow this gets deleted Server cannot start. Here is a solution of how to get the server started when TempDB is deleted.
2011-05-04
15,353 reads
A Developers' Guide to Refactoring Databases
When Agile meets 'Big Design', the result can be frustration on both sides. Is it possible for database development to to easily coexist with Agile methodologies for application development? Nick suggests that the technical solutions already exist, and the dissonance is more due to cultural and organizational problems
2011-05-04
6,129 reads
SQL 2008 SP/CU Patching Through Windows Scheduled Tasks
Automate patch installations using the task scheduler and command line hotfix options for SQL.
2011-05-03
4,714 reads
Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
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A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
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Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
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iso source of scripts.
While doing some housekeeping I came across a folder containing some scripts that appear...
Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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BIT_COUNT() IV
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