Backups are the foundation of any well run database server, or even any computer system. Numerous articles have been written about SQL Server backups and new author Paulo Luis brings us a new twist on building automated backups using devices.
The key to maintaining a good employment outlook in IT, it seems, is to move out of programming and up into more business-oriented IT positions such as systems analyst, business analyst, project manager, or systems architect. However, a computer programmer can't just decide to become a systems analyst or project manager overnight.
With Windows 2003 now clustered, you're ready to begin to clustering SQL Server 2005. In this presentation, you'll see how to cluster SQL Server 2005 and some best practices in how to configure the SQL Server cluster after the fact.
Due to overwhelming demand, we've opened up another Integration Services class. Start Christmas vacation early in Orlando on Dec 18.
Andy Warren brings us an introduction the the Report Builder in SQL Server 2005. It's the less often used tool for developing and customizing reports that you can give to end users and lower the number of requests your developers receive.
The superiority of SSIS over DTS goes beyond functionality alone, providing numerous efficiency benefits, which we will present in more detail in this article.
SQL Server 2005 introducted the OUTPUT clause which we can use to capture values from the inserted and deleted virtual tables.
A slight departure from the usual Spotlight series. We have Eric Lee, project leader for the Team Foundation Server. It's not a part of SQL Server, but it's a product that many DBAs will get exposed to. Read on about another interesting member of the Microsoft development team.
Leverage Perspectives, new to Analysis Services 2005, through MDX. BI Architect Bill Pearson leads hands-on practice with this means of visually focusing data retrieved from the UDM.
Writing complex queries can be a little tricky, especially when you get into outer joins and inequalities. New author Amin Sobati takes a look at a tricky situation with the "Not Equal To" operator and shows how you can avoid inaccurate results.
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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