Query Analyzer is a great tool for developing SQL code. There are a number of little tricks that can greatly increase the amount of work you can do with very little effort. This article starts looking at some of the features of this tool.
2007-10-02 (first published: 2003-01-07)
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In the second of a series of articles that targets the DBA new to an organization, this article looks at how to manage DTS packages.
2006-10-06 (first published: 2003-01-02)
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With SQL Server 2000 you are able to create databases or columns with a different collating setting than the server. This article will explain a couple of methods Greg has used to successfully change collation settings.
2002-12-30
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This free extended stored procedure can read and write to a stored text file. Perfect for writing error logs!
2002-12-24
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This article analyzes the various options available for your backup and recovery process with SQL Server 2000 as well as an enhancement to your SQL Server backup and recovery process using a highly efficient backup and restore utility that provides significant time and disk space savings called SQL LiteSpeed.
2002-12-23
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As a new DBA, you will probably walk into an environment that is poorly documented and nobody has any idea of how many SQL Servers are on the network. In the first series of articles, Haidong Ji talks about how to audit logins in your SQL Server.
2002-12-20
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A few months ago Greg Larsen ran across a big problem with SQL Server collation when querying. He shares his bruises in this quick article.
2002-12-19
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This article discusses an often-overlooked feature of SQL Server called user-defined data types.
2002-12-17
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Everyone does demos. You need them to sell your software, but the demo server presents some challenges. Continuing this series, this article looks at moving data between servers.
2002-12-13
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Andy discusses reasons why he thinks setting the default database to anything other than master is a mistake. We think he does a good job of covering the pros and cons, read the article and join the discussion!
2002-12-11
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By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
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While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers