2005-01-17
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Administration
SQL Server 2005 - Managed execution
The next version of SQL Server named SQL Server 2005 is completely hyped with the integration of CLR into SQL Server. The introduction of CLR into SQL Server allows developers to write stored procedures, triggers, user defined functions, user defined aggregates and user defined types using .NET languages like VB.NET and C#. This introduction has opened up multiple avenues for developers and we need to be careful in maximizing the feature provided.
2005-01-14
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Recovery Planning For SQL Reporting Services
SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services is becoming a more and more popular reporting option everyday. However, the disaster recovery plan for this add on is not a simple backup and restore since there are multiple pieces and servers usually involved. However the DBA may be responsible for the entire system. Mike Pearson brings us a look at some of the scenarios that you need to consider and what you might need to prepare for disaster recovery of SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
2007-02-16 (first published: 2005-01-06)
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2004-12-28
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2004-12-16
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SQL Server 2005 DBCC Command Quick Reference
The next version of SQL Server due in 2005 will bring about many changes in how it works, with .NET, the CLR integration, Integration Services, and much more. Many of us are looking to get a jump on the product and see where these changes might affect our scripts and environments. Jon Reade has started the work in decoding the new DBCC commands, which ones work and which don't. Since there's a limited amount of documentation for the Beta product, read about his detective work and send him off an
2004-12-16
34,313 reads
Finding Objects Owned by non-DBO Users
SQL Server has this concept of an owner of an object. Similar to the concept of schema, but not quite the same. Best practice dictates that all objects in SQL Server be owned by dbo, but that does not always happen. Tracking those objects down might be a pain, but Santveer Singh brings us an easy way of doing this.
2004-12-15
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2004-12-14
2,019 reads
Scheduled MS Cluster Failovers using Automation Server Objects
SQL Server clusters are great tools to ensure that your servers are highly available. However there are some times when you'll want to manually perform a failover for testing, maintenance, etc. New author Anthony Bressi brings you a technique and code to allow you to use VB 6.0 to build a small program to automatically do this.
2004-12-06
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2004-12-03
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Blogs
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There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers