PowerSMO at work part 2
Dan Sullivan continues his exploration of the versatile PowerSMO tool with coverage of how to control logins, monitor server activity and create standalone administrative scripts.
Dan Sullivan continues his exploration of the versatile PowerSMO tool with coverage of how to control logins, monitor server activity and create standalone administrative scripts.
I regularly use SQLIO.EXE to gauge the maximum throughput a disk subsystem can sustain. Recently Microsoft released SQLIOSIM.EXE to provide better results for this type of test. However they didn't release any documentation on the tool and I could never figure out what it was trying to tell me. It looks like they finally did release a Knowledge Base article on SQLIOSIM. Give it a spin. I'd be curious to hear what you think of the tool.
In part 2 of this series, Jacob Sebastion continues looking at XML in SQL Server 2000 with some advanced XML processing.
Diagnose performance problems in MSSQL Server 2005 with a powerful new administration tool. BI Architect Bill Pearson provides hands-on guidance in installing and using this powerful new dashboard / report pack, freely available to MSSQL Server 2005 users everywhere.
SQL Server 2005 has changed replication dramatically and one of the changes is that subscriber tables have the identity
column. SQL Server guru Andy Warren takes a look at what impact this has on transactional replication.
Robyn Page and Phil Factor demonstrate some set-based techniques for string manipulation and time interval-based reporting, which use helper tables rather than iterative logic or the dreaded cursor.
Longtime author Dinesh Asanka takes a look at one of the new tools on the market, SQL Refactor from Red Gate.
How many times have you tried to save a sales order to your database? For many DBAs this is a common scenario and one of the challenges is the many round trips for the various line items. Jacob Sebastian brings us the first part of a four part series looking at how you can use XML to reduce the round trips in SQL Server 2000.
In this session by Brian Knight, he shows you how to create a proxy account for SQL Server Agent to use. Proxy accounts and SQL Server 2005 credentials help you impersonate another Windows account in Agent.
The people that develop SQL Server are very interesting in addition to being some of the top software developers around. Steve Jones
continues with his look behind the development team with an interview with Sameer Tejani.
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I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers