Chris Cathers

  • Interests: SQL, Of course, & Programing, writing, and reviewiong missions for the Video Game Operation FlashPoint.

SQLServerCentral Article

Searching the FileSystem

SQL Server excels at storing and retrieving data, especially in the area of reporting on this data. Chris Cathers has come up with a great solution for gathering and reporting on the filesystem on his network, enabling him to help out his local sysadmins.

2004-10-25

8,495 reads

SQLServerCentral Article

Custom String Functions

SQL Server's Data Transformation Services (DTS) is a fantastic tool for importing data from any type of source. However even with this tool, you sometimes need more flexibility than it appears to have, especially if the data formats are unknown far enough in advance. New author Chris Cathers has developed a technique that allows him to be extremely flexible without causing too many headaches down the road.

2004-10-18

9,218 reads

Blogs

Is Cataloging Your Data Important?

By

Data continues to be the lifeline for companies across the globe. As maturity levels...

Daily Coping 20 Mar 2023

By

Today’s coping tip is to get outside and notice how the weather feels. This...

Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 03-13-2023 & SQLBits 2023

By

 Hello Dear Reader!  What an incredible week we had.  I started off traveling on...

Read the latest Blogs

Forums

Azure SQL - Restore to lower enviornment

By PJ_SQL

Hello! Backups are automated for Azure SQL Prod environment, we can do point-in-time recovery...

Bcp queryout issue

By kakovatos7

Hi all, I am running the following query in SQL, trying to export some...

SQL Server RLS Database Users and Login User Permission

By Irakli Lomidze

Please suggest practice on SQL Server RLS On the database level, defined users with...

Visit the forum

Ask SSC Logo Ask SSC

SQL Server Q&A from the SQLServerCentral community

Get answers