The Ebb and Flow of Community
Phil Factor talks a bit about the SQLServerCentral community and how we all get something different from it.
Budgeting
A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
Knowledge sharing
This article talks about the sharing of knowledge in forums such as SQLServerCentral.
Using the Sort Transform - SQL School Video
This SQL School video shows just how you can sort the data in your SSIS packages.
Checksum Transformation
The Checksum Transformation computes a hash value, the checksum, across one or more columns, returning the result in the Checksum output column.
Life on SQL Server 2008: Interview with Thomas Grohse
Thomas has been running SQL Server 2008 live in production for over 1 year as part of the Microsoft Early Adopter Program. Below is the full interview I conducted with him about his experience with SQL Server 2008.
The Numbers Table
Having a table of just numbers can be very handy, and it doesn't necessarily take up much space in your database. New author Brandon Galderisi brings us a short tutorial on setting this up.
Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Forums
Pro SQL Server Internals
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers