A Function Gotcha with the Use of an Asterisk
This article describes and demonstrates the problem of using asterisk to select all fields from a table within a table function. (from Apr 2008)
Moore's Law
Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
Moore's Law
Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
Moore's Law
Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
Moore's Law
Moore's Law has been in the front of technical people's minds for years. However is the end of it's applicability to our world near? This Friday Steve Jones asks if you pay attention to the news about processor hardware.
Service Broker: Performance and Scalability Techniques
SQL Server Service Broker provides support for building asynchronous messaging and queuing applications with the SQL Server Database Engine. This paper describes a large scale customer scenario and the techniques employed in scaling Service Broker to process tens of thousands of messages per second on one server.
Ten Common SQL Programming Mistakes
It is not always easy to spot "antipatterns" in your SQL, especially in more complex queries. In this article, Plamen demonstrates some of the most common SQL coding errors that he encounters, explains their root cause, and illustrates potential solutions.
Writing a Technical Article – Where to Publish
This is part three of a series on writing a technical article. The advice might apply to non-technical articles, but...
A Good Word for ODBC
A guest editorial from Phil Factor puts in a good word for ODBC. This is the standard for Windows machines to connect to all kinds of data sources, and is both loved and hated by developers of all kinds.
Less Than a Week - PASS 2009 Summit
A last push for the 2009 PASS Summit before registration goes up.
Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Pro SQL Server Internals
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers