Being Supportive
Steve Jones says we need to stick together in IT, at least from the perspective of the client. Otherwise we can all look bad as an industry.
2010-01-07
2,273 reads
Articles
Being Supportive
Steve Jones says we need to stick together in IT, at least from the perspective of the client. Otherwise we can all look bad as an industry.
2010-01-07
2,172 reads
Data searches that leverage existing indexes
Recent installments of our SQL Server 2005 Express Edition series have been discussing its implementation of Full Text Indexing. This article focuses on data searches, which leverage existing indexes, taking into account such features as noise words and thesaurus files.
2010-01-07
2,426 reads
Logging with SQL Server
This article from Ed Swiedler looks at using SQL Server to log activity from various sources. Service Broker and Windows Services are used to create a generic logging service that will build log files for you to examine outside of any application.
2010-01-06
4,442 reads
Transfer database schema objects and data to another server/database with SMO
In this tip, I am going to show you how you can use SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) classes to transfer database objects and data to another server or database.
2010-01-06
3,931 reads
Those Stubborn Database Rules - Finding Them and Scripting Them
Scripting out database rules to help you remove them from your database solutions.
2010-01-05
4,736 reads
Application and Multi-Server Management
This paper introduces the new extensions in SQL Server Management Studio and the Control Point Explorer, and it walks through the simple process of setting up a SQL Server managed server group, including SQL Server Control Point installation, enrolling an instance into central management, extracting Data-tier Applications from existing deployments, and deploying Data-tier Applications to the new managed server group.
2010-01-05
2,161 reads
Managing Large Data Sets in SQL Server 2005 and 2008
Easily manage operations against large data sets, be able to stop and start operations at a whim and throttle them up or down to manage system performance.
2010-01-04
10,551 reads
2010-01-04 (first published: 2009-12-30)
1,698 reads
Why would a SQL Server Professional need an iPhone for work?
In which Phil Factor attempts to justify his iPhones and iPod Touches as a business expense.
2010-01-04
303 reads
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The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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