Should IT managers understand technical issues, or is a full appreciation of the technology somehow unworthy and unnecessary for senior staff? In such a rapidly changing industry where fortunes are made and lost by attempting to exploit gaps in the market too thin to see with the naked eye, the answer would seem obvious. However, I have repeatedly come across amazing gaps in the technical knowledge of managers.
2006-05-31
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This is a good explanation on how to acctually bill a customer for your service over a credit card in your web application.
2006-05-26
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2006-05-22
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Drops the specified column from the specified table as well as any constraints that depend on the column. By default the script will just find the corresponding column and constraints.Comes in handy for patching databases.
2006-11-29 (first published: 2006-05-17)
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For many of us, working with the identity property allows us to easily generate a sequential series of numbers. But what if you need to generate a sequence according to some pattern, like one that includes the year? New author Asif Sayed brings us a technique and the code for generating a patterned sequence.
2006-05-17
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Person name may have these combination in database1. firstname only2. middlename only3. lastname only4. firstname + middlename5. firstname + lastname6. middlename + lastnameAnd firstname, middlename, lastname may contain null or empty string in data. but usee want to display Fullname without spaces then how will combine all.
2007-06-28 (first published: 2006-05-15)
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One of the hard parts of being a consultant, either full time or after hours for extra money, is finding a job. SQLServerCentral.com has a new partner that can help you solve this problem, find a job, and maybe a new career.
2006-05-15
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As many of you know, data driven subscriptions is not a feature available with SQL 2000 RS Standard Edition. However, you can accomplish this using the supplied stored procedure. It may not be as pretty as the version in SQL Enterprise, but this one gets the job done, and it is very ……useful!I have not […]
2006-11-13 (first published: 2006-05-11)
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2006-11-14 (first published: 2006-05-08)
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This is the basic structure of how to dynamically create a pivot table recordset for SQL 2000. In this example, I am using SUM, but it could just as easy be COUNT or any other aggregate function.
2006-05-26 (first published: 2006-05-08)
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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
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In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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