Although adding multiprocessing capabilities to applications is labor-intensive and error-prone, adding multicore capability to SQL query processing can be automatic, benefiting huge numbers of applications with little developer effort.
Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on error handling techniques that leverage Service Broker's transactional nature. This article describes Poison Message detection characteristics and presents an example demonstrating its use.
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
After intense negotiations with CA and Microsoft, the founding sponsors of PASS, SQLServerCentral has agreed to take over the organization.
There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes themselves have issues, but rather many questions about whether corporations are spending shareholder dollars appropriately. It's not a simple topic, but clearly there did seem to be a lack of awareness about how those kinds of things would be perceived in difficult financial times.
It’s time. After years of building this site to work with SQL Server, I sold it to Red Gate Software. Part of that transaction meant that I had to work for Red Gate for a period of time afterwards. I think I’ve done a good job in that time, but I don’t own this site anymore, and can’t compete with it contractually.
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