Million Dollar Challenge, The Sequel
Red Gate Software is having another million dollar challenge. If you work for a small software company, or have a software product of your own, read about the challenge.
2010-08-06
4,013 reads
Articles
SQL Q&A: Shrinking, Growing and Redesigning Databases
SQL databases come in all shapes and sizes and schemas. This month, our SQL expert helps with condensing, growing and redesigning databases.
2010-08-06
4,321 reads
Vote For The PASS SQLRally Logo
Take a moment and vote on the new SQL Rally logo that will be used for the event next spring.
2010-08-06
1,762 reads
'Just Google It'
A short editorial explaining the pitfalls of using search engines as reference for DBA's.
2010-08-05
327 reads
Using T-SQL to Verify Tables Row Counts in Transactional Replication
This article will help you to use T-SQL to verify that the Subscribers have the same number of rows of replicated data as the Publisher in transactional replication
2010-08-05
11,256 reads
Migrating VLDB with Log Shipping
You just had a great weekend. You go grab your coffee and before you take a sip a manager grabs you and says, "we need your help." We need to migrate a very large database to our new data center. We need to keep the data in sync and have a short period of downtime when we cutover.
2010-08-05
3,477 reads
Creating Holidays and Special Dates
A way to save holiday records that can be created as needed into a search-able calendar table.
2010-08-04
14,382 reads
Database Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 Tools and Approaches
Performing an upgrade is a complex and often risky project. A successful upgrade can provide an organization with a modern platform for development and production. An unsuccessful upgrade can cause lost time and money, and it can create a bad perception for the future.
This paper documents approaches and tools that can help DBAs and developers to achieve successful and mostly painless upgrade of SQL Server databases from Microsoft® SQL Server® 2000 or SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (or SQL Server 2008 R2).
2010-08-04
3,731 reads
Tally Table Uses - Part II
In part II of this series, Sioban Krzywicki shows us another way Tally Tables have helped solve problems - Text Parsing.
2010-08-03
9,420 reads
Implementing SSIS Package Configurations
Marcin Policht demonstrates how to leverage SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package variables in order to modify SSIS properties without directly editing package content.
2010-08-03
3,152 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers