Are We Not Testing Enough?
This Friday Steve Jones asks if we are setting the bar high enough when interviewing people and would you want to test more?
There Must Be 15 Ways To Lose Your Cursors… Part 2
Learn to use Where, Claire. Plus a conversion methodology, a test harness and more!
Reporting Services 2008 R2: Geospatial Visualization – Part I
Geospatial Visualization is one of the key new features of SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services. This step-by-step tutorial demonstrates the creation of a Map Report.
Log shipping and A Control Mechanism
Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich has implemented a log shipping mechanism that can recover from failures and give you control over how it works. Read on if you want to implement your own version of log shipping and have control over all aspects of the process.
Lost Data
Steve Jones talks about the loss of data, and how it can impact your life. And why you want to be sure that your restores are ready in the event of a disaster.
Kimball University: Extreme Status Tracking For Real Time Customer Analysis
Customer interactions create a wealth of timely data that marketing departments are eager to exploit. The customer status fact table provides a central switchboard for using this fast-moving data.
Come Vacation on the SQL Cruise
This fall you have the chance to learn from a number of SQL Server experts and get a little vacation at the same time on a SQL Cruise.
On Being the 2009 Exceptional DBA
A guest editorial from Josef Richberg, winner of the Exceptional DBA contests in 2009.
There Must Be 15 Ways To Lose Your Cursors... part 1, Introduction
Learn how to leave those Cursors and loops in the thrash, Nash... An article from longtime contributor and SQL expert, Barry Young.
XML Workshop 26 – SELECT * FROM XML
This article presents a generic function that makes it easy to query XML documents
Blogs
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
When growing companies outgrow Excel
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
Forums
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QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
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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