Query Analyzer has been a great tool in SQL Server 2000 and while it is superceeded in SQL Server 2005, lots of us will be using it for some time to come. New author Yakov Shlafman brings us some references and tricks for this essential DBA tool.
2005-09-20
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In a followup to the recent articles and discussions on interviewing and DBA skills, Sean McCown brings us a new article that looks at one situation that resulted in a rejection. Learn what you might want to work on before your next interview.
2005-09-19
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This simple script identifies all objects which have a rollback transaction statement without a requisite begin transaction statement. If a rollback statement is issued without a begin statement, then the code will generate an error. Triggers are not included in the list since they can have a rollback without a begin. This script can be […]
2006-01-09 (first published: 2005-09-16)
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A table Users contains a Create date column.A table AccessLog contains StartTime column.Both are date time fields.Users table contains one row per user and AccesLog contains as many rows as the number oftimes the user Logged into the system.The requirement is:to produce a single table that has two different COUNTs... one column will have the […]
2005-10-06 (first published: 2005-09-16)
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I took the script from the email you sent me and tested on my machine but i had to correct a few thing because our system is case sensitive. Thanks for the anonymous that wrote that script..... 😉 "This script will document tables (including constraints and triggers, row counts, sizes on disk), views (including all […]
2005-10-07 (first published: 2005-09-16)
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Written by an Oracle guy, but it's still some good advice for people that want to be DBAs. If you're experienced, pass it along to others that are looking to move into this role.
2005-09-07
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Part 3 of Steve Jones' series on employee retention, this one focused on the manager's point of view in keeping employees around. Gain some insight into how the manager may view your situation and understand why he or she may act as they do.
2005-09-07
10,822 reads
This might not be the fastes script, in the world but it takes care of the McDonalds, O'Brian's, MacPherson's and the Jens-Michael's of the world.
2005-09-05 (first published: 2005-08-31)
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Quando você restaura um banco ou 'atacha' ao seu servidor de outro servidor, pode ocorrer de o usuário que existe no banco não sincronizar com o login do SQL server anteriormente criado com DBO desse banco, então esse script faz exatamente isso, pega o SID do SQL e dá um UPDATE no SID do usuário […]
2005-09-06 (first published: 2005-08-30)
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There are many ways to format dates, and rather that reinvent the wheel each time I've found it helpful to have a user defined function always available. As a function it of courses processes on each row, and to enable the most flexibility the formatting style is passed simply as a parameter. Year month and […]
2005-08-31 (first published: 2005-08-25)
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If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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