The New Year - 2009
It's the first day of 2009 and Steve Jones gives a few predictions for the new year in this editorial.
It's the first day of 2009 and Steve Jones gives a few predictions for the new year in this editorial.
It's the first day of 2009 and Steve Jones gives a few predictions for the new year in this editorial.
In a previous tip on Disaster Recovery Procedures in SQL Server 2005 Part 1, we have seen how we can come up with a disaster recovery procedure in SQL Server 2005. There are other ways to increase availability of your highly critical database in SQL Server 2005. What are those other options?
Moving databases is fairly simple, but when you move a system database, there are a few extra steps to follow. MVP Brian Knight walks us through how to move temdb in this video.
What would you do if you want to perform 15 to 30 lookups using the same reference dataset? This is how I did it...
Steve Jones gives one last update on energy issues in the US in 2008 with a look at the construction and building industries.
Today many companies determine to publish their data on the Internet trying to expand their business and make their information more accessible. The IT industry proposes a wide range of original solutions for resolving data inconsistency problems that publishers inescapably face when exporting their data as they need to properly access, process and interchange large amounts of information mainly through the web.
Yan Pan explains how to set up proxies in SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and compares the differences between them
SQL Bits IV, in Manchester, UK next year on March 28th, is now looking for speakers. Please submit a session if you are interested.
Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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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