SQL Views are essential for the database developer. However, it is common to see them misued, or neglected. Joe Celko tackles an introduction to the subject, but there is something about the topic that makes it likely that even the experienced developer will find out something new from reading it.
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that might surprise you. Today Grant talks about clustered indexes in your tables.
Today Steve Jones notes that we use computers to enable others to handle their own work without help. But is that always a good idea.
A quick how-to on configuring SQL Server Agent alerts to manage file space usage.
I often see questions online where someone wants to find out who started a trace, when tempdb last had an autogrow event, or when the last full backup for master occurred. Since these and other events are captured by the default trace, but the default trace only keeps five 20MB rollover files by default. This means that the event you are after may no longer be there, depending on how long ago it was and how busy your server happens to be. Unfortunately, people often need to find this information well after the fact.
Today Steve Jones talks about interviews and the way in which he approaches them to make sure that the job is the best fit for both the company and the candidate.
This article will show you how to configure the FTP task in SSIS to recieve files from remote server using the FTP protocol.
We talk a lot about continuous integration here on the Atlassian Dev Tools blog, and many readers are bonafide CI gurus. Now that you are integrating your application code, test code, config files and deploy scripts, are you ready to take it to the next level? An increasing number of engineering shops are starting to bring the continuous integration discipline into their database development.
Laerte Junior goes step-by-step through the process of tidying up and making more reusable an untidy collection of PowerShell routines, showing how pipelines and advanced functions can make PowerShell more effective in helping to automate many of the working DBA's chores.
This example uses an SSIS workflow to populate a database with QuickBooks data.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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