The Software Comparison - Part 4
The final installment of Steve Jones' comparison between software developers and other professions looks at the most closely related: engineers.
The Software Comparison - Part 4
The final installment of Steve Jones' comparison between software developers and other professions looks at the most closely related: engineers.
The Software Comparison - Part 4
The final installment of Steve Jones' comparison between software developers and other professions looks at the most closely related: engineers.
The Software Comparison - Part 3
Steve Jones takes another attempt at comparing software development to another profession. Today's target: doctors.
XML Workshop XX - Generating an RSS 2.0 Feed with TSQL(SQL server 2000)
SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian continues his very successful XML series with a foray into SQL Server 2000's XML capabilities for generating custom documents.
How do I ... reject alpha characters in a SQL Server character column?
Enforcing your data's integrity is probably the single most important issue you face when designing a database. Validating user input is one way of keeping bad data from making its way into your analyses and reports.
Identity Columns
When Nigel Rivett takes us on a tour of the apparently innocuous subject of Identity Columns in TSQL, even the seasoned programmer is due for one or two surprises.
Software Comparison - Part 2
The second editorial from Steve Jones comparing software to other types of jobs continues with a look at the legal profession.
Sync All Logins on a Server in a single click using SP_MSForEachDB
Reduce your recovery time and minimize the chance for error by resolving all logins in one script.
Intelligence on the Go: Mobile Delivery of BI
Many BI vendors now offer modules that let you deliver just about any report to smart phones, but as a major retailer, a health care provider and a major government agency have discovered, practical, tactical wins are the key to mobile success.
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers