It is again time to play with some date/time values. This challenge involves reading the audit log entries generated by a monitoring application and create a report that shows the up-time and down-time of a system that the application is monitoring.
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Diagnostic report pack for SSRS that provides monitoring capabilities for all items on the Report Server.
A guest editorial from Brad McGeHee today talks about maintenance plans and his new book.
The company I work for has migrated to SQL Server 2008 and we're ready to start planning for the use of geospatial data. One of the applications we want to use geospatial data in will assist order fulfillers in efficiently picking stock for orders. Our warehouse is fairly large, which geospatial data type should we use?
One of the most common mistakes made in T-SQL is thinking that these behave identically. I've personally opened up a...
Recently Ben Kubicek created a script that would allow him to copy his production db to a test instance and correct the production specific SQL code in stored procedures and views.
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What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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