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New Spatial Features in SQL Server Code-Named 'Denali'
SQL Server 2008 introduced spatial data support into the database server. This paper describes and discusses the new spatial features in SQL Server Code-Named “Denali” CTP1 and CTP3 that augment existing SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 spatial functionality.
Password Help
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Oct 9, 2006. Steve Jones talks about the issues of turnover, passwords, and security.
Database recovery model change notification report for SQL Server
The database recovery model plays a crucial role for the recovery of a database. With several DBAs having access to a SQL Server instance there are bound to be changes that are not communicated. In this tip we cover a monitoring solution we deployed at our company to alert the DBAs if a database recovery model is different than what it is expected.
SSMS Tools Pack 2.0
If you work with SSMS, you’ll know how frustrating it can be when tasks you perform every day aren’t part of the core features. Malden Prajdic certainly did, which is why he developed his free SSMS Tools Pack. Now on its second version, Grant Fritchey explains the functionality of this great free plugin.
Doubly Wrong
Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Nov 7, 2006 as Steve is at DevConnections. This one talks about SPAM and security.
Field Level Auditing using Change Data Capture - Part 1
A two part article on Change Data Capture for field level auditing and marting that data using SSIS for reports.
Using a Clustered Index to Solve a SQL Server Deadlock Issue
At some time or another every DBA has been faced with the challenge of solving a deadlock issue in their SQL Server database. In the following tip we will look at how indexes and more specifically clustered indexes on the right columns can help reduce the chance of your applications receiving this dreaded error
Gold in the Execution Plan hills
There's more information hidden behind those graphical plans than you might first suspect.
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers