Microsoft Corp. is planning to deliver updates to its Exchange Server product every two years and is considering a similar move to deliver SQL Server updates in a more timely manner, company officials said at the TechEd 2004 conference.
2004-05-28
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Quest Central® for SQL Server is an integrated database management solution designed to enable administrators to manage complex database environments and simplify everyday tasks. Quest Central for SQL Server provides DBAs with a set of tools to achieve higher levels of availability and reliability, leverage and extend native SQL Server administration capabilities, and adds multi-server and change management capabilities to make database management easier.
2004-05-21
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Apex SQL Tools has released Apex SQL Script 3.0, database Tools for database scripting. Apex SQL Script scripts both database structures (tables, views etc) as well as database data, which it converts to insert
scripts. The new release has a completely redesigned user interface, faster database scripting engine and many more database scripting options.
2004-05-18
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Here's a little replacement for Query Analyzer that appears to provide most of the functions, plus a few more. While we haven't given it a full review, at first glance it appears to do the job. Plus there's NO INSTALL!!!! Always a plus for me.
2004-05-07
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Another look at how the next version of SQL Server will integrate and work with .NET technologies.
2004-04-30
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Lumigent Technologies today announced that they are a recommended supplier to provide data auditing solutions for risk management to customers of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 through their Entegra product. Enterprises that depend on SQL Server databases can now rely on Entegra as a trusted auditing solution to enable compliance with regulatory requirements.
2004-04-22
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What's wrong with SQL Server? Lots of things to some people, but here's a look at where this product is positioned in the marketplace against the other RDBMSes.
2004-04-20
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According to this article Mangione will be working on security products. Paul Flessner and several other managers will take over the SQL team.
2004-04-13
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One of the strengths of Visual Studio .NET is its features for rapid application development, or prototyping. If, for example, you want to develop a Windows form that lets you maintain the data in one table of a database, you can usually do that in 20 minutes or less. This article will show you how.
2004-04-01
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One of the biggest hurdles people new to the IT field face is getting access to all the software they need so they can learn. This new program from Microsoft offers a TON of software for under $400. Caveats apply (don't they always?) but it's worth the 5 minutes to read what it takes.
2004-03-01
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By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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