SQL Validation Functions - 4 Cool UDF's to have handy
Everyone knows that in SQL 2000, yes 2000, Microsoft jumped aboard the bandwagon of other platforms, and gave the developers...
You Don't Know Enough
We never know enough ourselves to be sure that we have completely thought through all the scenarios or holes in our logic. This is why it makes sense for us to have a group that spends time looking for problems.
NULLIF
Do you use NULLIF? For me, this command has been seldom used. Because of that, I have been dabbling with...
SQL Saturday #73 - Orange County, CA
A free one day training event on Apr 9, 2011 in Huntington Beach, CA. Come learn about SQL Server with a number of SQL Server experts.
Using PowerShell to Manage SQLServer
This article provides a practical example of how Powershell can be used by DBAs.
ERDDUG - Introduction to Indexes with SQL Server MVP Gail Shaw
If you are in South Africa near East Rand, join the East Rand Developer and DBA group on April 9 for a presentation by SQL Server expert, MVP, and longtime SQLServerCentral author, Gail Shaw.
How To Fix Connect
Today Steve Jones asks for your ideas on Microsoft's Connect. It's a good way to submit bugs and suggestions, but it seems to suffer from a scale problem. What do you think would help?
Industrial-strength database documentation using Extended Properties
To finish this short series on extended properties a look at documenting sets of database objects
Change SQL Startup Parameters with PowerShell
Sometimes when we’re trying to track down a problem and looking through SQL’s Logs we have to dig...
SQL Saturday - #74 - Jacksonville
Come attend this free one day training event in Jacksonville, FL on Apr 30, 2011. Meet a number of SQL Server experts and learn about SQL Server at the University of North Florida.
Blogs
Advice I Like: Training Employees
By Steve Jones
Train employees well enough that they could get another job but treat them well...
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
SQL Server Migration Overview
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Why Data Modelling Still Matters - More Than Ever
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why Data Modelling Still Matters...
hops from sql server to mysql to s4 hana - possible?
Hi when i think of server hops , i think of how kerberos assists...
Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers