Sometimes cursors are necessary when executing queries in SQL Server, but most of the time they can be avoided entirely. This article shows where cursors can traditionally be used, and how you can use features packaged in SQL Server 2005 to avoid them.
2009-03-19
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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
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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
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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
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There are certain requirements for creating indexes on computed columns and this tip shows you want needs to be done.
2009-03-18
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In a recent blog post, SQL Server expert Denny Cherry discusses adding a user interface to his Standalone SQL Agent, a replacement for the SQL Server Agent service.
2009-03-17
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This article shows the steps to analyze SQL Server logins and permissions to ensure that there are no logins and users that exist who are have unnecessary access
2009-03-17
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If you don't have a witness server and your principal server goes, how do you make your mirror server the principal and bring all your databases online?
2009-03-16
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Operations Manager has a number of reports to help you monitor the uptime of your applications, but reporting can be difficult to learn until you understand all the different options, the different parameters possible, and the way the Operations Manager health model is structured. Firstly, you need a clear idea about the way that your organization defines 'uptime'. then you can start your reports from any of the views in the Monitoring tab, and then add or remove objects to get the report you need.
2009-03-16
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Learn why choosing against the encryption of personal info in your SQL Server database can leave your organization vulnerable to certain compliance issues.
2009-03-13
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By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
By James Serra
Once again there were a number of Microsoft Build announcements related to data and...
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