In his continuing quest to bring a deeper understanding of Query Optimizer to the world at large, Fabiano Amorim takes a moment to point out a potential pitfall you may encounter. A light read, but one worth persuing.
2010-01-01
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A set of different connection strings for using with different providers for SQL Server.
2009-12-31
8,480 reads
In which Phil decides to use a table consisting of all the common words in English to explore ways of cheating at Scrabble and writing doggerel using SQL Server. He then issues a SQL challenge.
2009-12-30
3,255 reads
’ll focus on the issues that you need to follow to make sure that you have done everything that you could do to optimize the data access codes you have written or you are going to write in future. The Database Administrators (DBA) also has great roles to play in optimizing and tuning the database performance. But, optimization scopes that fall into a DBA’s area are out of scope for these articles.
2009-12-29
5,922 reads
Auditing is not only used to ensure internal compliance with authorization rules, it is increasingly used to comply with new legal compliance requirements. This article provides a detailed walkthrough for using SQL Server 2008's new inbuilt Audit feature.
2009-12-28
2,590 reads
Learn how to get started working with SQL Azure and migrating SQL Server databases to SQL Azure.
2009-12-24
3,433 reads
The Script Task and Script component are often used by people developing SSIS packages because they are easy to use and now because SSIS could be perceived to be more developer friendly they are very powerful. That being said we should no be using them everywhere.
2009-12-23
3,228 reads
My company is heavily dependant on SQL Server transactional replication and once in awhile the default alerts are not sufficient and sometimes we want to be able to disable alerts when we perform maintenance. In this tip I will show you a few scripts I have implemented to allow me to better manage our transactional replication.
2009-12-22
3,036 reads
Recent installments of our series dedicated to the most important features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on its Full Text Indexing capabilities. This article covers other full text indexing management methods.
2009-12-21
2,483 reads
I know there are fixed database roles that come with SQL Server. How do I best use them within my installations? What should I watch out for? In this tip we will cover each of the database roles and recommendations on when to and when not to use them.
2009-12-18
3,959 reads
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