Andy started a contest this summer to see who could develop a T-SQL method of keeping a bowling score. He's finally gotten around to the results after the damage from the hurricanes was cleaned up. See who won and see the code that does the trick.
2004-11-19
5,910 reads
Red Gate Software, a leading supplier or SQL Server and .NET tools has updated the classic "A Christmas Carol" to show the importance of stress testing.
2004-11-16
4,482 reads
Theyre back and expanded, the 2004 Readers Choice awards. Take a minute and vote now for the products and vendors you have enjoyed working with.
2004-11-02
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Our longtime member and author, James Travis went with the SQLServerCentral.com crew to the 2004 PASS Summit in Orlando last month. For those of you that don't recognize the name, he goes by Antares686 in the forums and has been generous enough to post over 6,000 times, giving lots of his time and knowledge to helping others. He jotted down a few notes on the conference for those of you that weren't there and are considering going next year.
2004-10-14
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Our resident SQL Server security expert, Brian Kelley, went with the SQLServerCentral.com crew to the 2004 PASS Summit in Orlando last month. He was kind enough to jot down a few notes on the conference for those of you that weren't there and are considering going next year.
2004-10-12
4,139 reads
It was an adventure. Moving a SQL Server physically from one location to another should be a simple process, but it turned out to be a bit more than Steve expected. Read about the adventure and inject a little humor into your day.
2004-09-24
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2004-09-17
4,489 reads
We've grown much faster and further than we expected and so the time has come to move. To a new collocation facility this weekend. We'll be down for a few hours Saturday and hopefully after that you won't notice a thing.
2004-09-17
2,825 reads
All the submissions for the Nightmare Contest are in, now take a moment and vote for your favorite.
2004-09-08
3,709 reads
We've added a new store section. Read on and visit to see if there's anything worth your while.
2004-08-30
3,450 reads
I presented at SQL Saturday Pittshburgh this past weekend about populating your data warehouse...
By Steve Jones
A customer was asking recently about the RPO for their estate, and I showed...
By Steve Jones
I’m hosting a webinar tomorrow with Rie Merritt from Microsoft. We’ll be talking about...
hi everyone I am planning on adding a composite key for my tables. I...
We have a Production/Live version with up-to-date data and a Test version with older...
Hi All, I am currently testing the Table Partitioning to implement in SQL server...
CREATE TABLE t0
( id INT PRIMARY KEY
, field1 VARCHAR(1000)
, field2 VARCHAR(MAX));
INSERT INTO t0
SELECT
gs.value
, REPLICATE ('X', 1000)
, REPLICATE ('Y', 1000)
FROM generate_series(1, 10, 1) gs;
GOselect STRING_AGG(field1, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;
select STRING_AGG(field2, ';') within group (order by id) from t0;