SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS), introduced with SQL Server 2005 and enhanced in SQL Server 2008, allows you to write queuing/message based applications within the database itself. This article discusses creating an application in which Initiator and Target both are in the same database.
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at a lighter topic that's fun for most geeks: super heroes.
After a webinar for SQL Source Control, there were a large number of questions left unanswered. All have been listed here, along with answers from the Red Gate development team.
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we normally do development on the development box; then during the build preparation we compare the development database with the QA/UAT/Production database to identify differences and generate schema objects for synchronization or incremental deployment scripts. How we can compare schema objects between databases and generate synchronization or incremental deployment scripts?
Each person on a team, or even in a company, can contribute something. Steve Jones reminds us not to assume we are better than others because of our job.
Error: 0xC001405C at SQL Log Status: A deadlock was detected while trying to lock variables "User::RowCount" for read/write access. A lock cannot be acquired after 16 attempts. The locks timed out. Have you ever considered variable locking when building your SSIS packages? I expect many people haven’t just because most of the time you never see an error like the one above. I’ll try and explain a few key concepts about variable locking and hopefully you never will see that error
I’ve fielded a number of requests recently asking how to interrogate a file within SSIS and change the processing rules...
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Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
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When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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