A SQL Conference In The Sun
SQL Connections, part of Dev Connections, is coming in a few weeks. Now is the time to register and get the chance to learn in a sunny location.
Change Server Collation in SQL Server 2008
How can I change the collation of SQL Server 2008? Learn how in this short tutorial.
Spring SQL Connections 2011 and SQLServerCentral.
Once again SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at SQL Connections in Orlando this March. Read about the event and our speakers and join us for SQL Server training in Florida.
A Small Collection of SQL Azure Queries
We have been doing some more work with SQL Azure lately, so I have put together a small collection of...
How to Identify CPU Bottlenecks in SQL Server
We experience regular slowdowns on our MS SQL database. After analyzing the memory usage we would like to continue the root cause investigation by examining CPU bottlenecks. What is your recommendation to recognize CPU related bottlenecks in SQL Server?
Changing the default port numbers when configuring database mirroring
There are times when you need to use different network ports to communicate between two servers running database mirroring. Learn how to change the default ports.
NoSQL is Not the Answer
NoSQL solves some problems in the database world, but not all of them. It's also not an evolution of the relational database, but as Steve Jones notes, it has some features we might see in SQL Server.
Serialising tabular and relational data.
Guest editorial by Phil who bemoans the difficulty of transferring tabular data by file between differing databases, spreadsheets and analysis tools.
SQL Server CASE Law
SQLs CASE expressions can be powerful magic, but can trap the unwary that are used to the more familiar CASE statements of procedural languages.
Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers