Solving the “Running Totals” Problem in SQL Server 2005 with Partitioned Tables
Lynn Pettis gives us a look at a new way to solve a T-SQL problem.
2009-01-27
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Lynn Pettis gives us a look at a new way to solve a T-SQL problem.
2009-01-27
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It can be helpful in ETL operations to know what the distribution of your data is. Brian Knight shows how to use the Data Profiling task in this video.
2009-01-27
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I have found that I like to generate a script once and roll it out to multiple servers at the same time. SQL Server 2008 Management Studio makes that fairly easy by allowing one window to connect to multiple instances simultaneously
2009-01-27
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The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
2009-01-27
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The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
2009-01-27
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The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
2009-01-27
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This technical note is part of the Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments technical note series, which provides general guidance on how to set up, implement, and optimize an enterprise scale-out architecture for your Reporting Services environment. This note provides guidance for Reporting Services in both Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The focus of this technical note is to optimize your Reporting Services architecture for better performance and higher report execution throughput and user loads
2009-01-27
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New author Greg Bates brings us a few tips for those of you new to being a DBA or without much experience.
2009-01-26
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Learn how you can monitor the SQL Server instances for failover of a cluster or a restart.
2009-01-26
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You likely will need to test data against SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005, but ordinary backups are incompatible. Use SQL Server 2008's Generate SQL Server Scripts Wizard to push your SQL Server 2008 data back into SQL Server 2005.
2009-01-26
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Presenting you with an updated version of our sp_snapshot procedure, allowing you to easily...
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Just saw the "Azure Extension for SQL Server" Does anyone has experience with it?...
I've noticed several instances of what looks like a recursive insert with the format:...
I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( TravelLogID, CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17') SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFFI now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog) GO INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17') GOWhat is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025? See possible answers