Last time, we discussed Table inheritance, which allowed us to easily reduce redundancies in our table design by creating "base" or "super" tables that contain columns and relations that "sub-tables" automatically inherit.
2008-05-28
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I need a way to create a data dictionary that will stay up to date. I make many changes to the database and I spend more time trying to keep the documentation updated than doing database administration.
2008-05-27
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Learn how to use SQL Server Agent alerts and jobs to fix policy incompliance automatically.
2008-05-26
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William Brewer takes a look at the whole topic of SQL Code layout and beautification, an important aspect to SQL programming style. He concludes that once you are tired of laying SQL out by hand, you had better choose a tool with plenty of knobs to twiddle, because nobody seems to agree on the best way of doing it.
2008-05-26
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Database systems like Microsoft® SQL Server® have long supported triggers—developer-created scripts that automatically execute after or in place of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. Because triggers can access the data modified by INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE, they are an excellent tool for recording data changes to an audit log.
2008-05-23
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The SQL (Structured Query Language) language is a declarative language that became the "Data Language" used for describing "what I need" and "where to fetch it from" in most organizations. OOP (Object Oriented Programming) languages became the most common practice among developers widely adopted by R&D organizations around the world. So how do we bridge the gap?
2008-05-23
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People reading this post might really wonder of having read /heard about a concept on Dependency tracking in SQL Server 2008. It is nothing, but a set of built in existing SYS objects and their effective usage that help us save time & tedious efforts.
2008-05-22
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Every day, out in the various discussion boards devoted to Microsoft SQL Server, the same types of questions come up again and again: Why is this query running slow? Is my index getting used? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to arrive at the answer you have to ask the same return question in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? We are very pleased to be allowed to publish the first chapter of Grant Fritchey's excellent new book on execution plans.
2008-05-22
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Database developers need to write stored procedures which are not only fully functional, but also which perform acceptably. This article concentrates on some of the counters used to measure performance and analyses methods of capturing these counters.
2008-05-21
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I would like to share some interesting parameters I found for the undocumented extended stored procedure xp_ReadErrorLog. In doing some testing with this extended stored procedure I found four very interesting parameters. Adding to some of the articles already on the web that discuss undocumented stored procedures, in this article I will explain my testing, use and some examples of the procedure.
2008-05-21
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From T-SQL, without requiring an XEvent session, can I tell which deprecated features are being used on my instance?
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