The Glue that Binds
This Friday Steve Jones polls the community of developers about the time they spend dealing with data access.
The Glue that Binds
This Friday Steve Jones polls the community of developers about the time they spend dealing with data access.
The Glue that Binds
This Friday Steve Jones polls the community of developers about the time they spend dealing with data access.
An interview with the Exceptional DBA of the Year
Dan McClain was voted the Exceptional DBA of 2008 by the SQLServerCentral.com community. Learn a bit more about this talented professional in his own words.
Databases for Change
Meaningful change often requires information collection, processing, retrieval and distribution. As database professionals, that's our bag. So what can we do to help things along?
Reporting Services: Read Data from SSAS and SQL Server in One Dataset
Retrieve data from different data sources such as Analysis Services and SQL Server relational database as one dataset, so that you can create tables, matrices of that data.
Administering your Windows Internal Database (MICROSOFT##SSEE) instance
Microsoft products such as Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 and Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) 3.0 ship with SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition. Now called the Windows Internal Database, more and more system administrators charged with managing WSUS and WSS are faced with the challenge of managing these databases. Since most of these system administrators are not full-fledged DBAs, how do they manage the Windows Internal Database?
Setting up a Two-node SQL Server 2008 Cluster from the Command Prompt - Preparation
Part 1 of this series discusses the prerequisites for SQL Server cluster installation. Subsequent installments will provide step-by-step examples of SQL Server 2008 cluster installation.
The Release Schedule
Coordinating the release of software among all the groups involved can be quite a chore. Steve Jones comments on some of the challenges.
The Release Schedule
Coordinating the release of software among all the groups involved can be quite a chore. Steve Jones comments on some of the challenges.
Blogs
The Burrito Bot: AI-Powered Search in SQL Server 2025
A while back I posted about a couple of side projects that I’ve been...
SQL Server Journey (Part 1)- Enterprise Database 2016
By Vinay Thakur
Continued thinking about my Journey blog where we have to look back at the...
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference
By James Serra
A ton of new features for Microsoft Fabric were announced at the Microsoft Fabric Community...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences II
In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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