With the introduction of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft now allows you to write Data Definition Language (DDL) triggers to perform actions when events occur on your server. In this article, Greg Larsen discusses (examples included) some of the things that DDL triggers can be use for.
2007-07-04
2,503 reads
2007-07-03
1,612 reads
2007-06-27
1,706 reads
This article contains information about the things we have learned while working with Federated Databases. Before beginning it is necessary to define the terms being used. Included in this article is one solution in production that is using federated servers and Distributed Partitioned Views.
2007-06-27
1,732 reads
Longtime SQL Server expert Raj Vasant takes a look at various ways in which you can deploy reports for Reporting Services 2005.
2008-04-16 (first published: 2007-06-05)
21,465 reads
2007-05-30
1,620 reads
2007-05-21
1,512 reads
Performing an upgrade to the next version of SQL Server is something more and more of us will be doing as the support for SQL Server 2000 wanes. New author Sachin Samuel brings us an overview of the process and options that you have for performing an upgrade.
2008-05-07 (first published: 2007-05-16)
65,721 reads
What are the differences between SQL Server 2000 and 2005? It's a question that DBAs are often asked by those who don't work with SQL Server on a daily basis. Steve Jones begins a short series on the differences by examining some of the core administrative differences.
2008-05-08 (first published: 2007-05-15)
110,809 reads
Have you ever misconfigured your SQL Server's memory and been unable to start it? That happened to new author Jay Dave, who has the Data Center edition of SQL Server 2000 with a whopping 36GB of RAM. Here's how to get your instance back up and running.
2008-04-14 (first published: 2007-05-10)
8,871 reads
When I put together the invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #202, I wasn't sure what...
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Server-Level Table sizes
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
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