Red Gate is looking to expand upon their ever-growing list of extremely helpful tools and asking for help from you DBAs out the real world. They have a survey with 20 questions on Security Tools and 5 people will be chosen to win a goodie bag. I have no idea what's in the bag, but it should be interesting.
It's coming to Denver in September and there's still time to save. And attend the SQLServerCentral.com Reception.
One of new features in SQL 2005 that I haven't seen much talk about is that you can now add aggregate functions to any SELECT (even without a GROUP BY clause) by specifying an OVER() partition for each function. Unfortunately, it isn't especially powerful, and you can't do running totals with it, but it does help you make your code a little shorter and in many cases it might be just what you need.
As I built out the last pieces of the original table set (Card, Vendor, and Purchase), I found a number of pieces that needed to be fixed in the design.
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In this month’s installment, we will add security to the existing code and add new unit tests to prove that security.
In this month’s installment, we will discuss updates based on feedback from part 2 as well as introduce automated unit testing.
SQL Server 2005 has grown to include more versions of the platform than ever before. One of the newest is SQL Server Everywhere, now known as SQL Server Compact Edition. Jacob Sebastian brings us a great introduction for you to understand how this version disappears from the others and where it can be used.
Continuing with this series on building a database system
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In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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