Steve Jones continues with his look at how SQL Server 2005 differs from SQL Server 2000, this time tackling the differences from a developer perspective.
2008-05-29 (first published: 2007-05-31)
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If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend all SQL Server administrators check out the post from Microsoft detailing the post-SP2 fixes.
2007-04-16
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What's going on with SQL Server? Quite a few problems with patches reported lately. Steve Jones comments on what he sees happening.
2008-04-09 (first published: 2007-04-06)
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We recently ran a survey at SQLServerCentral.com and got over 600 responses. Here are the results and some commentary from Steve Jones
2008-03-28 (first published: 2007-03-28)
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Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005 has been updated to fix the maintenance plans issue.
2008-03-10 (first published: 2007-03-07)
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With the release of SQL Server 2005, it is more of challenger to Oracle than ever before. Guru Haidong Ji takes a quick look at how these two products compare and gives a few words of wisdom for the next version of SQL Server.
2006-05-22
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Download an updated version of Books Online for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the primary documentation for SQL Server 2005. The April 2006 update to Books Online contains new material and fixes to documentation problems reported by customers after SQL Server 2005 was released. Refer to "New and Updated Books Online Topics" for a list of topics that are new or updated in this version. Topics with significant updates have a Change History table at the bottom of the topic that summarizes the changes.
2006-05-04
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SQL Server 2005 brings us a number of enhancements, but the most important to T-SQL developers may be the changes to error and exception handling. The addition of the TRY CATCH structure is an important change and Raj Vasant brings us a look at this enhancement.
2006-02-02
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How many people are getting ready to upgrade to SQL Server 2005? Why are they upgrading? Why not? Edgewood Solutions conducted a survey and the results are in. Read on for the executive overview and learn how to get a complete copy of the results.
2005-11-02
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Confidential until the official release at 9:00am Pacific Time today. Check back after that time to get the big news!
2005-09-14
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By Steve Jones
It’s been an amazing week here, as well as a long week. I’m tired,...
By Steve Jones
skidding – v. intr. the practice of making offhand comments that sound sarcastic but...
By Brian Kelley
Let’s start with the keynote. The biggest take away was how having to support...
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In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this:
USE Sales; GO CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256 ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert; GOThis works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK? See possible answers