Ladies and Gentlemen, SQL Server 2011, aka Denali, CTP 1 is now available as public download :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=6a04f16f-f6be-4f92-9c92-f7e5677d91f9
Although, I'm not attending...
2010-11-10
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There are a handful of scripts out there to compress all of of the objects in your SQL 2008 database...
2010-11-09
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By quickly and easily obtaining the identity value, the OUTPUT clause of an INSERT statement can obtain the auto-generated identity value of a row, and so will allow the application to immediately reference the new row or add rows to another table that use the identity value as a foreign key reference.
2010-11-09
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Phil Factor finds much to admire in Microsoft's new Orchard application but is frustrated by a design decision that seems to limit its use to low-volume applications, with less stringent security requirements.
2010-11-08
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A two-year project involving a team of 15 people, a Future of Monitoring blog, input from thousands of IT professionals, and hundreds of hours brainstorming about how the world is changing has led to Red Gate’s newly released SQL Monitor.
2010-11-08
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Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
2010-11-08
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I'm needing to audit the permissions in my databases, but I want to script them out so I have something to run in case of a recovery situation. I've got the logins, roles, and users handled, but it's the permissions that I want to extract. How can I do this easily?
2010-11-08
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In this next installment of his series on TDD, MVP Andy Leonard continues the development of his database.
2010-11-05 (first published: 2009-06-16)
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Your application code may look neat and clean, and you are using a sound Object-relational Mapper, but when you put the pedal to the metal, you're not getting the performance. The time has come to lift the hood and see what SQL is being generated by the ORM, and what part of your code is causing the bottlenecks. The effect can be spectacular.
2010-11-05
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Data structure virtualization is the constructing of a data structure utilizing pieces or fragments from other data structures. This article demonstrates how Data structure virtualization can be performed in ANSI SQL utilizing hierarchical processing techniques to produce hierarchically structured virtualized output.
2010-11-04
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By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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