One thing that people typically want to do is always execute a particular task regardless of whether a checkpoint file exists or not. In this video, Jamie shows you how to create a package that can conditionally skip a checkpoint if it's in place.
2007-06-21
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Red Gate is looking to expand upon their ever-growing list of extremely helpful tools and asking for help from you DBAs out the real world. They have a survey with 20 questions on Security Tools and 5 people will be chosen to win a goodie bag. I have no idea what's in the bag, but it should be interesting.
2007-06-21
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One of new features in SQL 2005 that I haven't seen much talk about is that you can now add aggregate functions to any SELECT (even without a GROUP BY clause) by specifying an OVER() partition for each function. Unfortunately, it isn't especially powerful, and you can't do running totals with it, but it does help you make your code a little shorter and in many cases it might be just what you need.
2007-06-20
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As I built out the last pieces of the original table set (Card, Vendor, and Purchase), I found a number of pieces that needed to be fixed in the design.
2007-06-19
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In this column, I discuss how SMO can be used to examine a database’s objects and to perform a variety of administrative tasks.
2007-06-18
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In this month’s installment, we will add security to the existing code and add new unit tests to prove that security.
2007-06-15
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This script creates 2 new system functions :fn__testregexp(@String,@Pattern) returns int execute the method test(@String) on the regular expressions @Pattern returns : 0 : no match 1 : match null : one of the parameters was null anything else : error from sp_OA procedure fn__replaceregexp(String,@Pattern,@Replace) returns varchar execute the method Replace(@String,@Replace) […]
2007-06-14 (first published: 2004-04-07)
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In this month’s installment, we will discuss updates based on feedback from part 2 as well as introduce automated unit testing.
2007-06-14
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Hello,I posted this a while ago to several web sites. Someone found an obscure bug in it and I fixed it (newest script attached below). When I posted it to you last time, it didn't show up in any of the categories that I had checked; hmmmm? However, when I searched google, you have it […]
2007-06-13 (first published: 2004-09-28)
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Continuing with this series on building a database system
2007-06-13
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