Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Scalability Project
This white paper is a joint effort by Microsoft and Dell to demonstrate the scalability of SQL Server 2000 and Dell hardware.
2002-01-10
1,274 reads
Administration
Information Schema Views
SQL Server DBAs are often curious about the inner-workings of SQL Server. Indeed, it can save your job during disasters to know what's going on inside SQL Server. This article shows you how to use some of the SQL Server internal views to view some meta data about your servers.
2002-01-09
17,582 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
7,153 reads
nternet Data Center 1.5 - Reference Architecture Guide
This document (divided in chapters for your convenience) describes how to design a secure, scalable, highly available, and manageable Internet data center that is based on Microsoft products. This documentation examines the major challenges to consider when designing an Internet data center architecture and how this design addresses these challenges.
2001-12-30
967 reads
Web Data Administrator
The Web Data Administrator is a utility program implemented in ASP.NET that enables you to easily manage your SQL Server data wherever you are. Using its built-in features, you can do the following from Internet Explorer or your favorite Web browser.
2001-12-14
4,151 reads
SQL Server 2000 Undocumented System Tables
Alexander Chigriks decodes some SQL Server 2000 Undocumented System Tables.
2001-11-21
10,016 reads
SQL Server 7.0 Undocumented Extended Stored Procedures
A few stored procedures that are not documented in SQL Server 7.0, but may come in handy for DBAs
2001-11-07
7,990 reads
DBA Job Description: What type of DBA are you?
One of the common questions that Brian Knight sees in the newsgroups is what is a DBA officially supposed to be doing? In this article, Brian covers the many hats a DBA can and does wear.
2001-11-05
19,686 reads
Push FTP with SQL Server
DTS is an incredible package for moving data in the SQL Server world. One feature that is missing, however, is the ability to send files using FTP to a remote server. This article looks at a technique for sending files via FTP.
2005-07-01 (first published: 2001-11-01)
38,014 reads
SQL Server 6.5: Index Statistic Details
This article examines how index statistics are used in SQL Server 6.5
2001-10-30
3,316 reads
Blogs
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers