How do I ... Determine Database Growth If I Am Not Tracking It? If your database has grown considerably and you're not sure when or why it happened, you'll be hard pressed to figure out the answer unless you're tracking changes in database size.
This SQL School video introduces us to the data mining queries that you can run from BIDS in an Analysis Services project.
In this month's energy update Steve Jones takes a look at more efficient building practices to increase energy efficiency.
I want to move my database on my SQL Server 2005 system to a new drive, but I have database options, like cross-database ownership chaining, that I don't want to lose or have to remember to re-apply. How can I do this?
This article provides an overview and presents an example illustrating the role of transactions in processing Service Broker dialogs usage.
After some recent talks with security folks and auditors, one of the things I have had a hard time getting across is that you must trust those folks responsible for account and server management when it comes to securing your data. Yes, you can put in...
Should IT charge other departments for the use of its resources? Is that good for the business? Steve Jones comments on what this could mean for SQL Server DBAs.
MVP Jacob Sebastian has written a great series on working with XML in SQL Server and we have the latest installment today. This time he presents a library of functions that can produce an RSS ATOM compliant feed of data.
This code sample programmatically creates a package that imports a text file into SQL Server, with a Flat File Source and the OLE-DB Destination. This shows how you can leverage the SSIS engine to write your own data import tool for example, but beware importing files is not as simple as it may seem
You can read the previous posts here. To finish up (I think), I want to share a networking technique I stumbled on a few years ago, and talk about one more good reason to network.
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What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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