T-SQL Challenge #13
Take T-SQL Challenge #13, Break a batch of invoices into multiple parts based on rules.
2009-09-15
4,471 reads
Articles
Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008
Change data capture is a new feature in SQL Server 2008 that provides an easy way to capture changes to data in a set of database tables so these changes can be transferred to a second system like a data warehouse. This document provides guidance on how to configure change data capture parameters to maximize data capture performance while minimizing the performance impact on the production workload. The scope of this document is limited to the capture of change data and the cleanup process. Querying the changed data is out of scope for this white paper.
2009-09-15
2,531 reads
What's Your Education Worth?
Most of us learn on the job, but is that the best way? If you could learn faster at a cost, would you pay it? Steve Jones talks a little bit about what he has done and what he would do today in today's editorial. What is a SQL Server education worth to you?
2009-09-15
705 reads
What's Your Education Worth?
Most of us learn on the job, but is that the best way? If you could learn faster at a cost, would you pay it? Steve Jones talks a little bit about what he has done and what he would do today in today's editorial. What is a SQL Server education worth to you?
2009-09-15
630 reads
What's Your Education Worth?
Most of us learn on the job, but is that the best way? If you could learn faster at a cost, would you pay it? Steve Jones talks a little bit about what he has done and what he would do today in today's editorial. What is a SQL Server education worth to you?
2009-09-15
639 reads
Changing Usernames
SQLServerCentral is changing usernames for some of our members in an effort to clean things up. Read more about what will be happening on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009.
2009-09-14 (first published: 2009-09-11)
3,101 reads
T-SQL Challenge #1
Do you want to improve your T-SQL skills? MVP Jacob Sebastian runs regular challenges to get you to think about how to solve a problem in T-SQL. These run monthly and we have a summary and explanation from challenge #1 to help you learn more about moving data from 3 tables into a specific format.
2009-09-14
9,887 reads
Disaster Recovery for SQL Server Databases
High-Availability depends on how quickly you can recover a production system after an incident that has caused a failure. This requires planning, and documentation. If you get a Disaster Recovery Plan wrong, it can make an incident into a catastrophe for the business. Hugo Shebbeare discusses some essentials, describes a typical system, and provides sample documentation.
2009-09-14
4,158 reads
Don't Build a Monitoring System
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
892 reads
Don't Build a Monitoring System
Should you buy or build a monitoring system for your SQL Server? Todays' guest editorial from Grant Fritchey talks about the resistance to recommendations that many people seem to have.
2009-09-14
640 reads
Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
Forums
Stored Procedures for Server-Level Object and Column Search
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Databricks Genie Spaces for SQL Analysts: Natural Language Querying Without Leaving Your Data Platform
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The Costs of Multiple Platforms
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers