Basics of XML and SQL Server, Part 2: Shredding XML
In Part 2 of this series we will shred an XML document and insert its records into a SQL Server table using both the OpenXML and XQuery methods.
No Significant Fragmentation? Look Closer…
If you are relying on using 'best-practice' percentage-based thresholds when you are creating an index maintenance plan for a SQL Server that checks the fragmentation in your pages, you may miss occasional 'edge' conditions on larger tables that will cause severe degradation in performance. It is worth being aware of patterns of data access in particular tables when judging the best threshold figure to use.
Webinar: SQL Source Control 3.0 Connect your existing source control system to SQL Server
Find out what SQL Source Control & SQL Compare can do for your database development and deployment processes at one of our free weekly webinars. Each webinar includes a 30 minute software demonstration and a Q&A session.
Get month names ordered using recursion
Learn how to pull the month names in a report drop down using a recursive common table expression (CTE).
The Consistency Debate
Steve Jones wonders today if data professionals get a little too hung up on the consistency issues between servers.
Steps to Rename a Subscriber Database for SQL Server Transactional Replication
I have transactional replication configured in production. The business team has a requirement to rename the subscription database. Is it possible to rename the subscription database and ensure that transactional replication will continue to function as before? If so, how could we achieve this?
Disaster Recovery: Rebuild system databases on SQL Server 2008 cluster
In this article we will see how to rebuild system databases in SQL Server 2008 cluster that is failed to restart.
SQL Server 2012 RTMs
This past week the big news in the SQL Server space was the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2012.
How to Secure your SQL Azure Application
Developers targeting the SQL Azure platform should make sure their applications are secure. This article walks through the considerations developers need to keep in mind when designing SQL Azure applications.
Blogs
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
VPN + SQL Server Connections: Why Long-Working Setups Suddenly Fail with Msg 10054 and “Connection Broken”
By Tim Radney
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same...
Future IT Roles – Agentic Architect and AI Boom!!
By Vinay Thakur
These days everything is changing to AI World, IT roles are getting changed and...
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SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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