Improved Drive Space Monitoring
An update to the very popular article written by Mark Nash. In this new version we see some improvements in monitoring the drives on your SQL Server.
Keyword Searching in SQL Server
Have you ever wanted to ensure that keywords in your data are easily searchable? Have you struggled with full-text search? New author Michael Ahmadi brings us an interesting idea for a keyword tracking and searching subsystem based on T-SQL and triggers.
Give and Take
This Friday Steve Jones asks about capital at work and does it affect the way you do business.
Give and Take
This Friday Steve Jones asks about capital at work and does it affect the way you do business.
Give and Take
This Friday Steve Jones asks about capital at work and does it affect the way you do business.
Storing Images and BLOB files in SQL Server Part 2
Part two of this article focuses on using the SQL Server Binary data type to store small image files.
The Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Ch. 6
This is the sixth article in a continuing series, and this installment discusses the establishment and role of a Data Governance Council.
Securing the SA Account in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 has greatly changed the security paradigm for SQL Server DBAs. The sa account still exists, but for many tasks
you can now avoid using it. New author Ken Johnson brings us some ides for properly securing this highly privileged account.
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Auto Update Statistics not triggering on filtered indexes
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Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers