The Log Shipping Standard
Log shipping is a tool that has more benefits than just recovering from a major disaster. Steve Jones thinks this might be a tool that DBAs should use for all their critical databases.
SQL Server Geography Data Type
We are working on the migration to SQL Server 2008 and have geospatial data that we would like to move over as well. As part of our application we house information on locations across the globe. Which data type should we use?
Essential Software
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks if there is a set of essential software that every DBA needs to have installed on their machine.
Retrieving Data from an Audit Table
This article examines the various methods for retrieving data from an Audit table.
SQL Server Intellisense VS. Red Gate SQL Prompt
Fabiano Amorim is hooked on today's Integrated Development Environments with built-in Intellisense, so he looked forward keenly to SQL Server 2008's native intellisense. He was disappointed at how it turned out, so turned instead to SQL Prompt. Fabiano explains why he prefers to SQL Prompt, why he reckons it fits in with the way that database developers work, and goes on to describe some of the features he'd like to see in it
Office Cleaning
A guest editorial from Andy Warren today looks at choices in time management, as well as work accomplished.
SQL Server 2008 Spatial Index Performance
The institution I work with has decided to migrate their database system to SQL Server 2008. One of the applications uses geospatial data, which consists of millions of rows. I understand that their are indexes that can be used for geospatial data, but have not worked with them. What's the scoop on them?
Date Manipulation with DATEADD/DATEDIFF
Learn how to use Dateadd/Datediff functions to manipulate dates in this short article from Seth Phelabaum.
Don’t Change Anything
Being responsible for data integrity as well as the cleaning of data can be a problem for an organization. Steve Jones reminds us today that we should be careful about changing the data we work with.
New and Improved Functionality in SSIS 2008
While it does not bring revolutionary changes, the release of SQL Server 2008 delivers functionality, scalability, and performance improvements to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Here is a comprehensive listing of new and enhanced features of SSIS with a short description of each.
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Can You Let Go of Determinism
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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