SQLServerCentral.com Email Changes
As we begin a migration to a new hosting facility, we'll keep you informed. The first step is an email migration.
2007-03-07
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Articles
SQL Server Error Handling Workbench
Grant Fritchey steps into the workbench arena, with an example-fuelled examination of catching and gracefully handling errors in SQL 2000 and 2005, including worked examples of the new TRY..CATCH capabilities.
2007-03-06
3,580 reads
A Look at ApexSQL Log
Reading the transaction log is challenging and one of the tools that enables you go get insight is ApexSQL Log. New author S. Srivathsani takes a look at this tool and how it worked in one environment.
2007-03-05
3,509 reads
Citrix MetaFrame, SQL Server, and the DBA
In this article, Brian looks at how Citrix MetaFrame can use SQL Server for its internal data repository. The basic operation of SQL Server in a Citrix MetaFrame installation is covered. In addition, Brian looks at how a DBA is an integral part of the support team for a successful Citrix MetaFrame farm.
2007-03-02 (first published: 2002-05-13)
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Preparing the SQL Server 2005 Clustering Infrastructure
Before you even begin building a SQL Server 2005 cluster, you must ensure that your network infrastructure is in place. Here's a checklist of everything that is required before you begin installing a SQL Server 2005 cluster.
2007-03-02
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Should You Upgrade Your Current SQL Server Cluster to a SQL Server 200
If your organization is like many organizations, it may have some older version SQL Server clusters in production. If so, at some point you will have to make a choice about how to upgrade them to SQL Server 2005.
2007-03-01
1,739 reads
SQL Server Spotlight on Santeri Voutilainen
The depths of the storage engine must be some interesting places and we dive a little into them with our look at Santeri Voutilainen, one of the very talented SQL Server engineers who worked on the lock manager.
2007-02-28
2,512 reads
Upcoming Meeting for Southern New England SQL Server User Group
If you are near Rhode Island, there's a new user group available with SQL Server Guru Grant Fritchey presenting.
2007-02-28
1,153 reads
Database Design: A Point in Time Architecture
In most relational database implementations. Update and Delete commands destroy the data that was there prior to their issue. However, some systems require that no information is ever physically deleted from or updated in the database. In this article, Arthur Fuller presents a solution to this requirement in the form of a Point-in-Time architecture: a database design which allows a user to recreate an image of the database as it existed at any previous point in time, without destroying the current image.
2007-02-28
3,723 reads
Using BACKUP and RESTORE in SQL Server
This article covers the basics of full backup backups and restores in SQL Server. The examples are from SQL Server 2005 however it applies to SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005. This is a very basic article covering full database backups, database restores and the simple and full recovery models.
2007-02-27
5,180 reads
Blogs
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers