DBA's can use the Transfer Error Messages and Transfer Master Stored Procedures tasks to transfer error messages and stored procedures between difference SQL Server instances.
There are lots of technical people that are forced to be DBAs by necessity. However there is another class of DBAs, the Incidental DBAs. Andy Warren brings a guest editorial that reminds us about this group of people that work with SQL Server.
The final part of the series will examine full text catalogs and indexing, database collation, service broker considerations, encryption and high availability.
If you work in software development or IT long enough eventually you're going to find yourself in a situation where...
This white paper complements the existing documentation on planning, implementation, and administration of a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster, which can be found in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online. There are links to relevant existing content throughout the paper, which is intended primarily for a technical audience. This white paper covers failover cluster architecture and concepts for Windows Server (2003 and 2008) and SQL Server 2008; installation of a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster; upgrades and updates to SQL Server 2008 failover clustering; and maintenance and administration of SQL Server 2008.
What are the benefits of Effective Dating and what problems does it solve?
The English voice of IT reason, Phil Factor, brings us a guest editorial. Today he waxes about the overbearing processes used to build internal corporate applications.
SQL Server 2005 and 2008 provide native XML data type and provides extensive support for XML data processing. The easy conversion from XML to a relational table provides a way for set-based updates based on user input.
In a previous tip on SQL Script Generation Programmatically with SMO, you've seen how you can use SMO to generate SQL scripts programmatically. In this tip I will cover how to generate scripts using Windows PowerShell.
I was in a presentation last week where the presenter was talking about the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. For the most part the...
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
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