Setting Up Delegation for Linked Servers
Learn how to set up delegation on your SQL Server instances, so you can use the impersonate options when setting up the security properties of linked server definitions.
2007-09-11
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ASP.NET 2.0: Retrieving XML Data with XmlDataSource Control
This article shows how to retrieve both remote and local XML data and display it in a data Web control.
2007-09-10
4,105 reads
What Specification Server Should I Buy?
Simon Sabin is always cagey about giving advice on the sort of hardware to run SQL Server on, but admits to some general rules.
2007-09-10
4,327 reads
Do Alpacas Dream of farming DBAs?
When IT starts to stand for 'Implement This', even the keenest DBA begins to dream of farming Alpacas as a career-change...and we ask our readers how they would have solved the DBA's dilemma.
2007-09-07
2,439 reads
Managing identity columns with replication in SQL Server
There are some issues associated with managing identity columns with replication in your SQL Server database. As with previous releases of software, SQL Server 2005 requires that database administrators use special care when replicating tables with identity columns.
2007-09-07
2,679 reads
Best-Practice Analytic Architecture to Support Business Strategy
A primary objective of any analytic architecture is business enablement - the ability to provide business users with access to quality information that can be used to drive decision-making.
2007-09-06
2,402 reads
Browser Style Form Navigation
This article series features a demo app affectionately named Something Not Entirely Unlike Access, which employs a variety of methods to obfuscate the "Accessian" features.
2007-09-06
3,753 reads
Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005 SMO – Part 6
Part 6 of "Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2005 SMO" illustrates how to use PowerShell and PowerShell script to backup databases.
2007-09-05
2,280 reads
Report Session Caching in Reporting Services 2005
BI Architect Bill Pearson begins a three-part sub-series on Caching Options within Reporting Services 2005. In this article, we focus upon Report Session Caching.
2007-09-05
2,172 reads
Service Broker Foundations Workbench
SQL Service Broker, an asynchronous queuing and messaging system for SQL Server 2005, is set to change the way we design and run distributed applications. Adam Machanic makes it all seem so easy
2007-09-04
1,799 reads
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I have a database, DNRTest, that has a number of tables and other objects in it. The other day, I was trying to mock up a test and ran this code on the same server:
-- run yesterday CREATE DATABASE DNRTest2 GO USE DNRTest2 GO CREATE TABLE NewTable (id INT) GOToday, I realize that I need a copy of DNRTest for another mockup, and I run this:
-- run today USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest2 FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens? See possible answers