The 'bin packing' problem isn't just a fascination for computer scientists, but comes up in a whole range of real-world applications. It isn't that easy to come up with a practical, set oriented solution in SQL that gives a near-optimal result.
Learn how to build a CLR function that can be used to perform string manipulations that might be rather complex in T-SQL.
Steve Jones reminds us that our databases contain code, and as such, they ought to be under some type of version control.
If you are running an instance of SQL Server 2005 and above then most likely that instance is running the default trace. This default trace is a canned Profiler server side trace that automatically starts up when SQL Server starts. In this article Greg Larsen explains more about the default trace and shows you how to glean some event information from the trace files created by this background trace process.
This SSIS package generates XML invoice documents from data stored in SQL Server, then FTPs and/or Emails them to clients.
Today Steve Jones talks about his favorite feature in SSMS 2012 and why everyone should use it.
Red Gate Software has released Version 3.0 of SQL Monitor, a performance monitoring and alerting tool.
A free day of SQL Server training in Atlanta, GA on Apr 14, 2012. Sign up today if you will be in the area.
Wouldn't it be great if your HR folks only had to put in HR-SQL.mydomain.com for the database connection in their reports? They wouldn't have to remember it was on server Nile and they certainly wouldn't have to change their reports if you migrated their database from the Nile server to the server named Danube. In DNS there are two easy ways to do this.
This article describes the use and advantages of the throw statement.
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers