Being More Productive
This Friday's poll looks at your productivity. Is there some technology that has really helped you do your job better?
2009-03-19
174 reads
Articles
Does Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 Fit Your Business?
While SQL Server 2008 offers several new benefits for organizations, the trick is figuring out if those performance and availability advantages are truly worth the upgrade.
2009-03-19
3,154 reads
Full Transaction log
One of the common questions often asked online is how to respond to a full transaction log. New author Krishna Potlakayala brings us a few techniques for dealing with this.
2009-03-18
13,013 reads
Accessing results in a random order: Towards the automated Thank-you letter
Phil shows how 'CROSS APPLY' can be useful for writing thank-you letters or thinking of excuses as to why your project has failed....
2009-03-18
3,881 reads
Avoid Transact-SQL's Column Alias Limitations
A column alias seems like a great tool for referencing complex expressions, but SQL Server doesn't work that way. Learn a simple workaround.
2009-03-18
3,116 reads
Handling Service Broker Errors
The previous installment of the 'SQL Server 2005 Express Edition' series discussed using transactions to protect the integrity and consistency of Service Broker-based communication. Depending on the type of issue encountered by our code, the outcome might be different from expected. This article demonstrates a more robust approach to error handling and applies it to our target.
2009-03-18
1,351 reads
How to create indexes on computed columns in SQL Server
There are certain requirements for creating indexes on computed columns and this tip shows you want needs to be done.
2009-03-18
3,781 reads
Secure Programming
Writing secure programs is hard. Steve Jones has a few comments on what some of the issues are with training developers.
2009-03-18
776 reads
Secure Programming
Writing secure programs is hard. Steve Jones has a few comments on what some of the issues are with training developers.
2009-03-18
503 reads
Secure Programming
Writing secure programs is hard. Steve Jones has a few comments on what some of the issues are with training developers.
2009-03-18
477 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Ecstatic Shock
By Steve Jones
ecstatic shock – n. a surge of energy upon catching a glimpse from someone...
The CDO’s Playbook for AI Driven Decision Making
By Chris Yates
The New Arena of Leadership The role of the Chief Data Officer is no...
sp_snapshot – The easy way to take database snapshots of one or more databases – V3.0
Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily...
Forums
sp_prepare and sp_execute vs sp_executesql
I have noticed sp_executesql also makes a single plan for a stmt with parameter...
Find Invalid Objects in SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Find Invalid Objects in SQL...
Question of the Day
Who am I?
If I want to track which login called a stored procedure and use the value in an audit, what function can I use to replace the xxx below?
create procedure AddNewCustomer
@customername varchar(200)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @added VARCHAR(100)
SELECT @added = xxx
IF @customername IS NOT NULL
INSERT dbo.Customer
(
CustomerName,
AddedBy
)
VALUES
(@customername, @added)
END See possible answers