Undocumented Gotcha in Merge Replication Tracking
In the spirit of Robert Davis's (blog | @SQLSoldier) blog post: Undocumented Gotchas of Transactional Replication, I decided to contribute an...
2011-12-18
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Undocumented Gotchas of Transactional Replication
Undocumented Gotchas of Transactional Replication
Gotcha - Norelco commercial (1977)
This discussion started on Twitter via the #sqlhelp hash tag. The question that...
2011-12-17
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Albanian SQL Server Users Group–First Meeting
Today, I’m so excited to announce that we had the first meeting of our Users Group – Albanian SQL Server Users...
2011-12-17
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Why you may or may not consider using Database Snapshots!
Microsoft introduced database snapshots with SQL Server 2005. A database snapshot is a static, read-only copy of a source database...
2011-12-17
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Why do I Blog?
Last week I heard about a new blog party/meme coming down the pipe for the #SQLFamily. This new meme is Meme15 and is the pet project of Jason Strate (Blog|Twitter)....
2011-12-17
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Why do I Blog?
Last week I heard about a new blog party/meme coming down the pipe for the #SQLFamily. This new meme is...
2011-12-17
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spid in Killed/Rollback cannot kill
We come across a situation where we have to kill one spid which was running for quite some time, so...
2011-12-17
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Albanian SQL Server Users Group - First meeting
Today, I’m so excited to announce that we had the first meeting of our Users Group – Albanian SQL Server Users...
2011-12-17
1,342 reads
Configuring and monitoring transactional replication between two SQL Server 2005 instances…
Replication often plays an important part in your database management strategy. An organization may use database replication for load balancing,...
2011-12-17
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Get drive & mount points space information in SQL Server 2005 by using CLR Stored Procedure?
As we know xp_fixeddrives can only be use to retrieve normal fixed drives space information. It cannot be used to retrieve information...
2011-12-16
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers