Solving the “Running Totals” Problem in SQL Server 2005 with Partitioned Tables
Lynn Pettis gives us a look at a new way to solve a T-SQL problem.
The January 2009 Car Update
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.
Viewing the Data Profiling Task Data - SQL School Video
It can be helpful in ETL operations to know what the distribution of your data is. Brian Knight shows how to use the Data Profiling task in this video.
Dynamically getting mail profile for sp_send_dbmail
I have found that I like to generate a script once and roll it out to multiple servers at the same time. SQL Server 2008 Management Studio makes that fairly easy by allowing one window to connect to multiple instances simultaneously
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Reporting Services Performance Optimizations
This technical note is part of the Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments technical note series, which provides general guidance on how to set up, implement, and optimize an enterprise scale-out architecture for your Reporting Services environment. This note provides guidance for Reporting Services in both Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The focus of this technical note is to optimize your Reporting Services architecture for better performance and higher report execution throughput and user loads
3 Tips On Being A Rookie DBA
New author Greg Bates brings us a few tips for those of you new to being a DBA or without much experience.
DBAs and the art of persuasion
How does a DBA go about "pitching" for money for a software tool, or any other resource? And what factors affect the likelihood of success? We all think we know, but could we do this part of the job more effectively?
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Presenting Twice in May 2026
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DB Design Methods
I've read a few posts regarding what we use to design DB models and...
Auto Update Statistics not triggering on filtered indexes
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What is the difference between SQL Server and SQL Database?
I created a SQL Database in Azure Portal but I've just noticed it also...
Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers