Sending E-mail from SQL Server 200X
From monitoring e-mail messages to distributing reports for users, SQL Server's database mail proves quite useful. Learn how to use it in SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005/2008.
2009-07-01
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Additional Articles
Windows Server Virtualization: Hyper-V, an Introduction
For SQL Server and Exchange Server, Windows Server Virtualization is going to be increasingly important as a way for the administrator to allocate hardware resources in the most efficient way, provide more robust services, and deploy services. Jaap Wesselius starts his new series on Hyper-V by explaining what Hyper-V is, how it relates to Windows Server 2008 and how it compares to ESX, Virtual Server and Virtual PC.
2009-07-01
2,890 reads
Copy Only Backup for SQL 2005 and SQL 2008
Is there any way that my ad hoc backups will not interrupt the sequence of my backup plan?
2009-06-30
3,948 reads
Execute SQL and Bulk Insert Tasks in SSIS
Learn how the Execute SQL and Bulk Insert tasks can be combined to create a database and insert data into the database.
2009-06-30
3,079 reads
Page compression in SQL Server 2008
Page compression is a new feature available in Enterprise and Developer editions of SQL Server 2008. In this article, MAK discusses how to enable PAGE data compression on a table and index.
2009-06-29
2,633 reads
Who's been logging into my SQL Server?
In a recent blog post, see the steps Denny Cherry thinks are vital to monitoring both successful and unsuccessful outside user logins to your SQL Server.
2009-06-29
4,897 reads
Identifying Object Dependencies in SQL Server
Is there a way to identify which objects are dependent on other objects within a SQL Server database? I need to modify the table structure to add new columns. However, before making any changes I want to make sure that I understand all the object dependencies. Is there a way in SQL Server 2008 to quickly identify all the object dependencies?
2009-06-26
3,798 reads
Introduction to Fast Track Data Warehouse Architectures
This paper provides an overview and guide to SQL Server® Fast Track Data Warehouse, a new set of reference architectures created for scale-up (SMP) SQL Server based data warehouse solutions. It includes a summary of the resources available in the reference configuration, the distinguishing features of the approach, and the steps necessary to take full advantage of the new architectures.
2009-06-26
4,002 reads
Practical Database Change Management (Part 2)
The final article on Change Management examines the more technical aspects of Change Management.
2009-06-25
3,251 reads
The short course on how SQL Server really works
Face it, you never intended to become a SQL Server expert, but the proliferation of this database engine – and its many editions – requires somebody to feed and care for it. You're the "Microsoft Guy" (or Gal), so whether you wanted to be or not, you were elected. This series of articles is all about making you more effective with SQL Server as an administrator, not a programmer.
2009-06-25
7,556 reads
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
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