Risk and Assumptions
Building software always involves risk, but in these tough times, Steve Jones thinks we should be working to lower the risk of IT projects.
Building software always involves risk, but in these tough times, Steve Jones thinks we should be working to lower the risk of IT projects.
Building software always involves risk, but in these tough times, Steve Jones thinks we should be working to lower the risk of IT projects.
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
Database roles for SQL servers can increase the security of your enterprise. Understand how to set up database roles, and learn how they function.
Reading files from the operating system can be done with T-SQL as I showed in the tip Using OPENROWSET to read large files into SQL Server. What if you want to write to an operating system file? For example, writing to a text file. There's no T-SQL that supports writing to a file.
New in SQL Server 2005, Synonyms replace aliases from previous versions. Brian Knight shows how they can be created and used.
New author Brian Bitzer brings us a solution to a log shipping problem in the Real World. Read about jhow one DBA solves a contention issue using SSIS.
I had a request from a client who prints a lot of cheques each month and there control over the cheques went a bit haywire. The requested me to create some controls in their system to make sure that the cheques are use in cheque number sequence.
With the inauguration of a new President in the US, will he give up his Blackberry? Steve Jones found an alternative that was surprising.
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers