SQL Server 2000 has a great set of administrative and development tools, one of the most heavily used of which is Enterprise Manager. Sushila Iyer brings us a fantastic article with some tricks in using this tool to create and manipulate tables.
Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.
Continuing with the humanization of the amazing team hard at work on SQL Server, Steve Jones takes a few minutes with Donald Farmer, BI guru.
Another great article from Joe Sack that looks at a great technique for generating reports in Excel for your users. Using DTS, you can easily setup an ad hoc or recurring schedule for your users. It's a way to quickly build a report that keeps people happy while making you look like a genius.
Richard Hundhausen is the author of Building Web Applications with ADO.NET and XML Web Services and Programming ADO.NET, both from Wiley, as well as the upcoming Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System from Microsoft Press. He is also a trainer, teaching numerous courses and speaking at conferences such as VSLive and Tech Ed.
Have you been burned by sysdepends at some point in your SQL Server DBA career? Steve Jones has many times, but a FREE new utility ends all that.
How many of you using SQL Server 2000 have the need to send email from SQL Server? How many of you hate Outlook? Here is a software package that can send not only HTML, but PDF as well and through SMTP. Read Hugh Scott's review and thoughts on this product.
Tried at TechEd and manned by the SQLServerCentral.com crew, this was a great idea. It's going to be at PASS and hosted by James Luetkehoelter.
Query Analyzer has been a great tool in SQL Server 2000 and while it is superceeded in SQL Server 2005, lots of us will be using it for some time to come. New author Yakov Shlafman brings us some references and tricks for this essential DBA tool.
It is just next week that the PASS 2005 Summit kicks off and we've got some information about our casino party for those attending.
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A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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