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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With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
2009-01-26
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With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
2009-01-26
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With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
2009-01-26
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Access can offer a lot of help with missing values, but finding and generating missing values in a field of sequential values requires a bit of code. Find it here.
2009-01-23
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Continuing the conversation I began in Part 1 & Part 2, today I want to ruminate some more on networking. I've had a good discussions about networking since I wrote the first two parts, with a focus on the value of networking.
2009-01-23
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Logging and recovery are critical parts of SQL Server, but they are often poorly understood. Paul Randal gives an overview of how the logging and recovery features work in SQL Server and explains the transaction log and recovery models to help you maintain a better database.
2009-01-23
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In this SQL School Video, Brian Knight shows how to abstract your schema with views and synonyms.
2009-01-22
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Had a bit of an oddity show up during some testing today when trying to disable log shipping on the primary server using SSMS. My test scenario was such that our secondary server was not available any longer (had been renamed) and when I tried to disable the log shipping...
2009-01-22
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2009-01-22
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By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
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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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