A first look at Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition
Learn about Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 for database professionals, a useful tool for database development with Microsoft SQL Server.
2009-02-27
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Articles
Creating and Using Databases in Android
Every application uses data, and Android applications are no exception. Android uses the open-source, stand-alone SQL database, SQLite. Learn how to create and manipulate a SQLite database for your Android app.
2009-02-27
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How do I ... Determine Database Growth If I Am Not Tracking It? -- Error Logs Part III
How do I ... Determine Database Growth If I Am Not Tracking It? If your database has grown considerably and you're not sure when or why it happened, you'll be hard pressed to figure out the answer unless you're tracking changes in database size.
2009-02-27
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Running A Basic DMX Query - SQL School Video
This SQL School video introduces us to the data mining queries that you can run from BIDS in an Analysis Services project.
2009-02-26
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How to move a SQL Server database within the same instance without losing settings
I want to move my database on my SQL Server 2005 system to a new drive, but I have database options, like cross-database ownership chaining, that I don't want to lose or have to remember to re-apply. How can I do this?
2009-02-26
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Service Broker Transactional Support in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
This article provides an overview and presents an example illustrating the role of transactions in processing Service Broker dialogs usage.
2009-02-26
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You Must Trust Someone
After some recent talks with security folks and auditors, one of the things I have had a hard time getting across is that you must trust those folks responsible for account and server management when it comes to securing your data. Yes, you can put in...
2009-02-26
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XML Workshop XXIII - A TSQL ATOM Library
MVP Jacob Sebastian has written a great series on working with XML in SQL Server and we have the latest installment today. This time he presents a library of functions that can produce an RSS ATOM compliant feed of data.
2009-02-25
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Creating packages in code - Flat File Source to OLE-DB Destination
This code sample programmatically creates a package that imports a text file into SQL Server, with a Flat File Source and the OLE-DB Destination. This shows how you can leverage the SSIS engine to write your own data import tool for example, but beware importing files is not as simple as it may seem
2009-02-25
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Networking - Part 6
You can read the previous posts here. To finish up (I think), I want to share a networking technique I stumbled on a few years ago, and talk about one more good reason to network.
2009-02-25
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
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Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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