Merge replication is probably not used as often as it could be, mainly because of the potential complexities of this tool. New author Satia Madimchetty brings us a great article that simplifies one part of this SQL Server feature, the conflict resolution issues.
2006-02-13
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Replication is a great tool, but it has a number of restrictions on what you can do with replicated databases. Typically you cannot easily move a replicated database, but our own Andy Warren brings us a technique that can get around this.
2006-02-01
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2006-01-23
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2005-09-30
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SQL Server 2000 replication is the easiest so far to setup and work with. However there are some areas that you can get yourself into trouble with if you are not careful. New author Chris Rock brings us a few lessons learned in getting replication working with a remote office.
2005-08-22
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Ever need to disable some foreign key during the load of new data in some tables? (Eq: for a snapshot). The following just does that using a parameter (0 for disable and 1 for enable)
2005-08-15 (first published: 2005-08-05)
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THIS TABLE WILL HODL YOUR TABLENAME AND UP TO THREE KEY COLUMNS FOR CREATING YOUR PRIMARY KEYSTHE OTHER COLUMNS ARE USED IN PROCESSING THE KEY'S AND GENERATING THE ALTER TABLE ASTATEMENTS TOCREATE THE PRIMARY KEYS FOR YOUR DB. THIS TOOL IS HANDY FOR PREPPING FOR A REPLICATION STRATEGY TO HELP YOU QUICKLY INDENTIFY IF YOU […]
2005-08-03 (first published: 2005-08-01)
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usp_ToggleDatabases is a simple procedure that will switch the names of two databases.One of the main problems with using sp_renamedb to switch databases is that the procedure will wait until the database is free before the rename can be completed. If the new live database is also in use then there is a likelyhood that […]
2005-08-04 (first published: 2005-07-28)
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This article discusses three common problems DBAs are likely to encounter when columns have the identity property, which is defined as an attribute of int, smallint, bigint, decimal, numeric or tinyint columns that will auto-increment their value when data is inserted. These problems are humorously referred to as the identity crisis.
2005-07-28
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We were experiencing significant issues with Cross Domain Log Shipping, even after getting help from Microsoft. The main reason was that in SQL Server 2000 you cannot access the Log Shipping Wizard from a scripting interface. This set of stored Procedures is all you need to setup a good log shipping framework in your organization […]
2005-08-01 (first published: 2005-07-18)
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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