2002-03-01
2,216 reads
Steve Jones
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Is 0% Downtime Possible?
Steve Jones examines the possible notion that a system can achieve 0% downtime. Read on to see if he thinks it's possible.
2002-02-25
5,983 reads
2002-02-15
3,566 reads
Advanced T-SQL for SQL Server 2000
A new T-SQL Bible that is a must have for SQL Server DBAs. Read a review of this book.
2002-01-23
14,626 reads
How does the Identity property work?
If you are like most DBAs, you have probably implemented some type of hash function for some of your tables at one time or another. This article takes a look behind the scenes as to how the Identity property works.
2002-01-17
6,504 reads
2002-01-11
3,433 reads
Worst Practices - Encrypting Data
Continuing with the Worst Practices Series: Steve Jones examines why encryption in the database is a bad idea.
2002-01-08
8,432 reads
50 Ways to Confuse, Worry, or just Scare People in a computer lab.
Things your non-technical friends don't want to hear in the lab...
2002-01-04
3,949 reads
Fixing Your Identity
If you use identity values, chances are that at some point you will need to find more information about the next value or reset the seed. This article looks at how you can accomplish this.
2001-12-31
7,135 reads
Worst Practices - Depending on the GUI
One of the strengths of SQL Server is its ease of management and administration over other systems. Oracle, DB2, even early versions of SQL Server required command line mastery to make many types of changes. But should you really be using the GUI for most of your tasks?
2001-12-04
6,234 reads
Blogs
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
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TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
Becoming a creator, my website experience
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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
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It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
Forums
Collecting active node hostname at centralized location
So folks we have around 30/40 sql server failover cluster insatnce with each having...
Beginner in sql server
Hello, How to add a UNIX_TIMESTAMP at my publish_date please CREATE TABLE [dbo].[latest_info]( [id]...
fast farward curson vs while loop on @table
hi, need to known weather fast farwand cursor is faster than a while loop...
Question of the Day
Getting the Indexed Columns
I run this code on SQL Server 2022 to get a list of all the indexes and their key columns. What is returned?
SELECT
INDEX_COL (N'AdventureWorks2017.Sales.SalesOrderDetail') See possible answers