2001-07-24
7,825 reads
Articles
SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide
Are you responsible for keeping your organization's database systems up and running? Are you the one they call in the middle of the night if the database server is down? If so, the SQL Server 2000 Operations Guide is for you.
2001-07-24
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Review: SQL Server 2000 Database Design
Is this a book you should read? Spend a few minutes reading the review to find out!
2001-07-23
4,568 reads
SQLServerCentral.com Wrox Book Giveaway
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2001-07-23
60 reads
2001-07-23
3,192 reads
Using COM to Output Queries to a Text File
This article presents a method of outputting the results of a query as a tab delimited text file using COM.
2001-07-20
6,583 reads
Troubleshooting ASP and ADO Errors
My ASP file doesn’t access my database." "I can’t connect to my database from my code." "I’m having problems calling and debugging stored procedures." These are some of the problems I hear every day as a Microsoft® developer support engineer.
2001-07-20
2,008 reads
2001-07-19
2,600 reads
Using Java to Encrypt Passwords
Lots of applications store user names and passwords in the database. This article presents a method for encypting this information using Java.
2001-07-19
14,943 reads
How Many Business Days Are There?
Ever had to calculate the number of business days between two dates? This article presents a way to solve this problem in T-SQL.
2001-07-18
13,008 reads
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers