When's Your Anniversary
Ever need to find out what anniversary dates are coming up? What about a list of birthdays in the near future? This article looks at querying for repeating dates.
Ever need to find out what anniversary dates are coming up? What about a list of birthdays in the near future? This article looks at querying for repeating dates.
This article presents one technique to be used for removing duplicate rows in a table.
This is a transcript of a recent chat that included our own Brian Knight!
How often do you hear FUD either for or against Microsoft? Know what FUD is? Steve Jones recently ran across an article looking at reasons why you don't want Microsoft products in your enterprise, specifically servers. Here's a few comments and a link to the article.
This article by Andy Warren introduces some additional SQL-DMO methods that are very useful when automating administrative tasks.
myLittleTools.net is pleased to announce the release of its web-based MS SQL and MSDE database administration tool. Several tools have been added, including "BackUp and Restore database" tools, "CSV Import" tool, "Generate INSERT scripts" tool, "Detach/attach database" tool. Several toys have also been added, including the possibility to display database space used with SVG graph, or a new skin.
Interesting info about why the optimizer might choose to use a nonclustered index over a clustered index. Links to two other articles that cover each type of index in more detail.
Another product review! Chris put AdeptSQL (a schema comparison and sync product) to work and wrote up the results. This article also includes some feedback from the vendor that is worth reading.
Microsoft is soliciting input on email functionality in Yukon. Follow the link to complete the survey. You can also discuss it here on the site:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17739&FORUM_ID=9&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=SQL+Mail+and+Yukon%2C+what+do+you+want+to+see%2E%2E%2E&Forum_Title=General
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