It is irritating, sometimes alarming, for the user to be confronted by the 'deadlock message' when a deadlock happens. It can be a tiresome business to prevent them from occurring in applications. Fortunately, the profiler can be used to help DBAs identify how deadlocking problems happen, and indicate the best way of minimising the likelihood of their reappearance.
What's important in an IT employee? Steve Jones talks about the skills and measurements CIOs want today and tomorrow.
What's important in an IT employee? Steve Jones talks about the skills and measurements CIOs want today and tomorrow.
What's important in an IT employee? Steve Jones talks about the skills and measurements CIOs want today and tomorrow.
While working on a project recently I was asked to develop a mechanism that would provide the dates for state and federal holidays in a given year. Since this project deals with all states and territories of the United States, the list had to be comprehensive and the client asked that this list be in the form of a SQL query calculated on-the-fly, rather than a static list.
Steve Jones talks about the value of software maintenance and how you should view their value.
Steve Jones talks about the value of software maintenance and how you should view their value.
Steve Jones talks about the value of software maintenance and how you should view their value.
Building high performance applications with SQL Server can be a challenge if you do not understand how the query processor works and how the server uses indexes. SQL Server expert Randy Dyess brings a look at how bookmark lookups are used when satisfying a query and how this can impact the performance of your query.
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What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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