The SQLServerCentral Party at PASS
Details for those of you coming to PASS and looking to attend the SQLServerCentral.com party on Tuesday night.
Twitter Your Issues
Twitter is one of those interesting Web 2.0 ideas that is hard to analyze. Is it valuable? Steve Jones might have an idea for how it could be used by DBAs.
Using the File System Task - SQL School Video
In this video, MVP Brian Knight shows how you can use SSIS to work with files on your drive: renaming them, moving them, and more.
Building a SQL Server Data Dictionary with the Extended Properties and Third Party Tools
When the database is small, developers often use built-in SQL Server tools and scripts to create the data model. However when the data model grows into an enterprise level data model with all of the associated complexities, the management and maintenance grow as well. So what options are available to manage and build the data model?
How Productive Are You?
We all deal with inefficiencies at work, but how efficient are we ourselves? Steve Jones takes a poll this Friday.
How Productive Are You?
We all deal with inefficiencies at work, but how efficient are we ourselves? Steve Jones takes a poll this Friday.
How Productive Are You?
We all deal with inefficiencies at work, but how efficient are we ourselves? Steve Jones takes a poll this Friday.
Compare Dates in an iterative manner for a particular set of records
Compare Dates in an iterative manner for a particular set of records in a single query using SQL Server 2000
Fix the Little Things
There are any number of small, annoying or tedious things in SQL Server and Steve Jones makes a case for getting them fixed.
Invoking Stored Procedures through a One Line Native .NET Method Call
Calling stored procedures from your application should be easy. Mark Frishman of ActiveDB talks about what he's done to help you build applications quicker.
Blogs
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
SSMS 22 still inserting tabs instead of spaces
I’m not trying to start up a debate whether you should use tabs or...
Forums
Script Task execution error with HTTP request
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer...
URL Safe or Not?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item URL Safe or Not?
Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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