SQL Server's functions are a valuable addition to T-SQL when used wisely. Jeremiah Peshcka provides a complete and comprehensive guide to scalar functions and table-valued functions, and shows how and where they are best used.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at the relationships you have with your co-workers.
SQL Server has produced some excellent High Availability options, but I was looking for an option that would allow me to access my secondary database without it being read-only or in restoring mode. I need the ability to see transactions occur and query the secondary database.
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Client data received for processing may have invalid records based on processing requirements. Identifying and dealing with bad records in a specific scenario is the object of this article.
This editorial was originally published on Jan 17, 2007. It is being republished as Steve is on vacation. This one deals with data security.
There are a number of ways of measuring and identifying I/O-related performance information for your SQL Server database instances.
Ben Kubicek wrote a recursive function that solves simple math expressions in a select statement. Read about this creative use of T-SQL.
This editorial was originally published on Feb 5, 2007 and is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. Is this the advice you'd give, or take, in a DR situation? Steve thinks it's not.
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?