Toward Integrity - Part 1
An exploration of the process of translating a conceptual model to a logical model, and ultimately, a faithful implementation using T-SQL.
Business Analysis: A Guide to Better Business Requirements
This article presents ten business analysis guidelines, representing best practices from successful projects.
SQL Server 2005 Bug Alert: Merge Replication Could Mean Data Loss
The SQL Server 2005 merge replication engine introduced breaking changes that can cause data loss for both MSDE and SQL Server Express subscribers. Find out how this bug manifests itself in a real-world scenario.
SQLonCall: Mock Interview, Part I
The first part of a great video series from Chris Shaw of SQL Oncall that walks you through a mock interview and gives advice on how you can present yourself in the best light.
Source Control in SQL Server
One of the most requested features from SQL Server developers is the integration of source control with T-SQL code. SQL Server Management Studio brings some integration with Visual Source Safe and longtime SQL Server author Raj Vasant explains it to us.
Accessing and Updating Data in ASP.NET 2.0: Handling Database NULL Values
Dealing with NULL database values in ASP.NET.
Custom check-in policies with VSTS
In this column, I'll dig into check-in notes and policies. You'll learn how check-in notes work and how to write your own custom policy implementations.
Under the Hood: How Dependency Probability is Computed by Naïve Bayes
This tip provides insight into the inner workings of the Microsoft Naive Bayes algorithm, showing how the algorithm computes the score used to filter out correlations.
Developers and DBAs
The battle between developers and DBAs can be a rough one at times. However DBAs are often outnumbered by developers and need to be sure they fit in. DBA Janet Wong brings us one of her experiences about how you can better go with the flow.
The 5 Stages of Volunteering
Volunteers are important to ensuring the success of so many organizations. IT-based organizations, such as user groups, are no different. Steve Jones leads you through a few of the stages of being a volunteer and hopes more of you will participate in your local area.
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
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,...
Forums
Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL
Hi everyone I am getting below warning when I run SSIS: Warning: 0x80049304 at...
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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