Turning off a server causes a flood of memories
I just shut down a SQL Server that has been in production since 2003. Next week I'll let the server...
2008-02-17
402 reads
Kathi Kellenberger
- Interests: Walking, running, grandchildren!
Speaking updates
If you are anywhere near St. Louis next Wednesday night, I will be speaking at the St. Louis Visual Basic...
2008-02-16
512 reads
A Review of PDF-eXPLODE
Reporting is a huge part of any DBA's job with constant changes and new requests for data that non-technical people can use. And more
and more often the format of choice is PDF, which ensures the end result looks the same on many different platforms. Kathi Kellenberger takes a look at a product that can allow end-users to generate PDFs from a database and easily send them to other people.
2008-02-07 (first published: 2007-02-15)
8,124 reads
Finding missing rows
One way to find the rows from one table that don't match another table is to use a sub-query. Here is...
2008-01-22
541 reads
End to End T-SQL!
After a couple of months of discussion, End to End Training has scheduled me to teach a two day beginning...
2008-01-03
471 reads
Finding Primes
While it's not likely that many of you need to find prime numbers using T-SQL, it is an interesting programming exercise. SQL Server guru Kathi Kellenburger brings us one solution after taking a break over the holidays and reading some popular fiction.
2008-01-01 (first published: 2007-01-29)
7,397 reads
70-431
I finally sat for 70-431 on Thursday. I know, I am at least a year behind everyone else. There is...
2007-12-22
1,370 reads
Confused?
I recently wrote an article on owners vs schemas for SQLTeam thinking that I had this all figured out. So...
2007-11-20
1,705 reads
bcp Utility
There was a time that I avoided bcp utility like the plague. A few years ago, we needed to set...
2007-11-09
635 reads
Access to SQL Server: Linking Tables
SQL Server 2000 and Access databases can be configured to work closely together. If you find that the Access storage format is not handling your needs and an upgrade is needed, you need not through away all of your access development. Instead, you can link Access tables to underlying tables in SQL Server and improve your application by using SQL Server as the backend for your Access project. Author Kathi Kellenberger brings us her second articles in an Access series looking at Linking tables to
2007-10-02 (first published: 2005-02-23)
45,525 reads
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Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers