There was a day when you didn’t have many decisions to make about a new SQL Server instance. You had to choose from a few editions and two licensing models: per proc or server cal. It wasn’t long ago that SQL Server would almost always be installed on a physical server on premises, and the […]
2018-03-26
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Kathi Kellenberger wonders what's keeping your business from upgrading.
2017-12-25
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When I began using LAST_VALUE, the results were not what I expected at all. Read on to learn the secret!
2016-06-03 (first published: 2015-04-14)
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Learn how to use common table expressions to simplify your code. Replace temp tables and correlated subqueries with this cool T-SQL feature.
2009-12-08
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MVP Kathi Kellenberger covers the basics of using T-SQL to modify data in your databases.
2008-09-30
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Learn how to summarize the values of your data using aggregate functions such as COUNT(), SUM(), and AVG() from MVP Kathi Kellenberger. Grouping and aggregate filters are covered as well.
2008-08-28
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It seems that SQL Server developers avoid stored procedures whenever possible, especially if they are new to the product. Kathi Kellenberger brings us a basic article that you can give to developers that explains the basics of how you use parameters with ADO.NET, especially output parameters.
2008-02-29 (first published: 2005-08-08)
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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)
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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)
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The SQL Server 2000 security model is not the best one of all the RDBMS platforms and requires some work to secure properly. One of the practices that is recommended is removing the builtin/administrators group from accessing the SQL Server. New author Kathi Kellenberger shows us some of the pitfalls she encountered when removing this group from her servers.
2007-08-10 (first published: 2005-01-12)
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By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, and pressing on...
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Hello experts, An application team has asked us to modify a SQL Agent job....
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