Getting A Clue About Your Databases
Got a new database you know nothing about? Here's my basic proposal on how to find interesting tables in it.
Got a new database you know nothing about? Here's my basic proposal on how to find interesting tables in it.
Join MSAS Architect Bill Pearson as he leads the hands-on creation of a simple bar chart based upon an Analysis Service data source.
Using Excel as a tool for data mining and predictions is very powerful. Learn how to take advantage of SSAS in SQL Server 2005 with Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
With the current economic downturn, many of us are wondering if we will still have a job by the end of this new year. Although DBAs are still in demand, no DBA job is 100% immune from layoffs. Brad suggests that now is the perfect time to invest in yourself.
After you complete an upgrade to SQL Server 2008, Brian Knight goes over some things you might want to do first.
We would like to update the user, role, and user role tables automatically from Active Directory. Ideally we'd like an SSIS package that we could schedule and/or run on demand to take care of the update. Can you provide an example of how to do this?
SQL does not support direct operations on matrices, but it does allow easy manipulations with matrices. Learn a few SQL techniques for performing some basic operations on matrices.
TDSe-cure is a proxy service to SQL Server to block SQL injection attacks.
One of the more exciting new features in SQL Server 2008 is data compression and Nicholas Cain talks a bit about how this works and how to determine if it fits in your environment.
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I have a table with this data:
TravelLogID CityID StartDate EndDate 1 1 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 2 2 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 3 3 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 4 4 2025-01-01 2025-01-06 5 5 2025-01-01 2025-01-06I run this code:
SELECT IDENT_CURRENT('TravelLog')I get the value 5 back. Now I do this:
SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog ON INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( TravelLogID, CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (25, 5, '2025-09-12', '2025-09-17') SET IDENTITY_INSERT dbo.TravelLog OFFI now run this code.
DBCC CHECKIDENT(TravelLog) GO INSERT dbo.TravelLog ( CityID, StartDate, EndDate ) VALUES (4, '2025-10-14', '2025-10-17') GOWhat is the value for TravelLogID for the row I inserted for CityID 4 and dates starting on 14 Oct 2025? See possible answers