Many people who spend time contributing to technical forums bemoan the increasing amount of time and energy they expend trying to help people who seem unwilling or unable to help themselves. At the same time, they say, the courtesy is deteriorating and the number of people willing to "stir things up" for the sake of it increases. Is there a solution to this?
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What are some of the on-call duties a DBA must perform? TJay Belt talks about them in this new article.
The following article shows how to compare dates in an iterative manner for a particular set of records in a single query
SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is now the primary tool that we all use to manage SQL Server. Whenever I open up SSMS I always go through the same steps to connect to a server and open certain query files. Are there any shortcuts or alternative ways of starting SSMS?
How much do you trust companies with your data? Steve Jones finds a couple new web sites that offer great services, but is it worth the price?
How much do you trust companies with your data? Steve Jones finds a couple new web sites that offer great services, but is it worth the price?
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
Longtime author Dinesh Asanka brings us a short tutorial on importing your data from Excel 2007 into a database using Integration Services.
This paper introduces key new Transact-SQL programmability features in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as well as SQL/Common Language Runtime (CLR) enhancements.
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In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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