Bad Meetings
A joint editorial this week from the Red Gate team looking back at the news of the week.
European PASS Conference 2008!
The next European PASS Conference will take place between the 14th - 16th of April 2008 in Neuss, Germany!
Service Pack 2a
Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005 has been updated to fix the maintenance plans issue.
Why Object Qualification is important.
You have all read about why object qualification is important. You also must have heard of why stored Proc should not have sp_ as prefix to the name. Now let us proove if this is all true.
Script to determine permissions in SQL Server 2005
Although a few different options (Management Studio, system stored procedures, system views, custom scripts, etc.) exist to determine your permissions in SQL Server, in this tip we want to outline the functionality from the fn_my_permissions table valued function.
The Social Contract
How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?
The Social Contract
How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?
The Social Contract
How much of a contract for servicing SQL Server should we expect? Has Microsoft broken an implied contract with us?
Trash Destination Adapter
The Trash Destination is now available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The Trash Destination and this article came from early experiences of using SSIS and community feedback at the time. When developing a package it is very useful to have a destination adapter that does nothing but consume rows with no setup requirement.
Blogs
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
The Agent Era: When “How do I…?” Replaces “Where do I click?”
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
Forums
Hiring: Financial SQL Systems Administrator
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Job Opening for ERP Systems Administrator - Hybrid
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data compare between 2 tables with same structure for any changes after etl run
i have huge table with lot of data and is also wide. i took...
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document II
I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamNameCity YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960If I run this code, what document(s) is/are returned?
SELECT json_objectagg( n.city : n.TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams;See possible answers