Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
Audit data using SQL Server 2005's COLUMNS_UPDATED function
Auditing data changes in your production environment is very important, especially if you are dealing with confidential information.
Auto generated SQL Server keys - uniqueidentifier or IDENTITY
I'm designing a table and I've decided to create an auto-generated primary key value as opposed to creating my own scheme or using natural keys. I see that SQL Server offers globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) as well as identities to create these values. What are the pros and cons of these approaches?
36 Changes
Agile, or maybe even hyper-agile. Steve Jones talks about some challenges in the web 2.0 world.
Fast Project Rollbacks
When a project is completed, one of the next steps is to roll this project out to the production environment. However a good rollback process is important to ensure that you can remove those changes if there are problems. Longtime author David Poole talks about how he handles this.
A Virtual Database World
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
A Virtual Database World
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
A Virtual Database World
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
Filtered Indexes in SQL Server 2008
This article demonstrates the performance improvements that can be achieved using Filtered Indexes in SQL server 2008
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Programmatically Retrieving MLV Lineage and Refresh Times
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Question of the Day
Increase Deadlock Detection
How can I alter the deadlock detection interval to 2 seconds instead of 5 seconds on my SQL Server 2025 instance?
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