With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.

The January 2009 Car Update

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial - iPod

With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.

Slack SQL Server

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This Friday's poll looks at the shortcomings of SQL Server.

Find and Generate Missing Values in an Access Table

by Additional Articles

DevX

Access

Access can offer a lot of help with missing values, but finding and generating missing values in a field of sequential values requires a bit of code. Find it here.

Networking - Part 3

by Andy Warren

SQLServerCentral.com

Blogs

Continuing the conversation I began in Part 1 & Part 2, today I want to ruminate some more on networking. I've had a good discussions about networking since I wrote the first two parts, with a focus on the value of networking.

Understanding Logging and Recovery in SQL Server

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TechNet Blogs

Backup and restore

Logging and recovery are critical parts of SQL Server, but they are often poorly understood. Paul Randal gives an overview of how the logging and recovery features work in SQL Server and explains the transaction log and recovery models to help you maintain a better database.

Using Views and Synonyms for Abstraction - SQL School Video

by Brian Knight

JumpStartTV

Video

In this SQL School Video, Brian Knight shows how to abstract your schema with views and synonyms.

Blog: Disabling Log Shipping When the Secondary Server Doesn't Exist

by David-Benoit

SQLServerCentral.com

Blogs

Had a bit of an oddity show up during some testing today when trying to disable log shipping on the primary server using SSMS. My test scenario was such that our secondary server was not available any longer (had been renamed) and when I tried to disable the log shipping...