We usually run this once a week on production servers:

sp_cycle_errorlog

We generally only keep the four weeks around. If you want to archive them after you cycle them,...

In general, you don't want to. TSQL is set based and works best when you keep that in mind.

For example, where I work, we will usually write a pair...

Thinking about it, that's a somewhat inadequate answer I gave.

Referring to Ambler's book on refactoring, of course you want to first add the new columns. Then you have a decision...

I'm not sure I agree on this one. My manager came out of sales & has few technical skills but he's doing a pretty good job managing the team. His...

If I were going to refactor this, I'd leave the existing column in place as a calculated column and then split the actual data storage into two other columns. My...

Good article. Interesting points. I've been at both extremes of the scale at large & small companies. Heck, I even went through the management change at a large company where...

You mean something like this?

SELECT DATEPART(month,t.SalesDate) AS Month,SUM(t.SalesQuantity),SUM(t.SalesAmt)

FROM tmpsalestarget t

GROUP BY DATEPART(month,t.SalesDate)

ORDER BY Month

Or are you trying to get them by day (1-31)?

Retire? What the heck is that?

I don't know that I can "retire" from being a geek. Even if I stop earning a living working with computers, I'll still be doing...

I have to agree. I'm stuck between option 2 & 3 (with occasional forays into 4). Since defaults aren't readily visible to the developers working on stored procs and since...

Neil Armstrong. I watched him walk on the Moon when I was 6 and it made me crazy for science (and science fiction). I tried to follow in his foot...

I'm going with the DBA answer... it depends.

Microsoft showing us how well mirroring works, I want a live demo, crashes & all. If it's really going to slice, dice...

I occured to me that I have at least one anecdotal story that may point to  how the editorial  policy may be applied. I wrote an article for Simple Talk...

As to how independent should you be, how independent can you be. I'm not talking about Red Gate, I'm talking about Microsoft. Personally, where Microsoft leads, I follow. Not because...

Go here, read.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/pressrelease/2696.asp

I agree that it was overall a pretty lame presentation. I also thought the questions were silly considering the audience. Seriously, at PASS, who cares about Linux? However, I want...