2024-04-15
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SQL Server Express
2024-03-18
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Automate SQL Server Express Backups and Purge Old Backups
SQL Server Express Edition does not include SQL Server Agent in order to schedule the SQL Server database backups. Here's how to automate the backups for SQL Server Express Edition and make sure the old backup files are deleted.
2015-02-17
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2012-08-10
2,496 reads
Sending E-Mail from SQL 2008 Express
This article provides a comprehensive solution to sending email from SQL Express 2008 and Express 2008 R2.
2013-07-12 (first published: 2010-11-04)
17,881 reads
Full Text Index Management in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Recent installments of our series dedicated to the most important features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on its Full Text Indexing capabilities. This article covers other full text indexing management methods.
2009-12-21
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Full Text Index Implementation in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Continuing our discussion, this article covers the remaining tasks necessary to implement a full-text index in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
2009-11-19
2,159 reads
Full Text Catalog Configuration in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Having concluded our discussion of Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we now begin an examination of Full Text Indexing and Search.
2009-11-16
1,789 reads
Troubleshooting Reporting Services
Marcin Policht continues his discussion of implementing Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. In this article, we will turn our attention to troubleshooting methods that can be employed to identify and resolve problems affecting reporting functionality and performance.
2009-10-26
2,719 reads
Service Broker Poison Message Handling
Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on error handling techniques that leverage Service Broker's transactional nature. This article describes Poison Message detection characteristics and presents an example demonstrating its use.
2009-04-02
1,585 reads
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Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers