This document describes the improved indexed views capability of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. Indexed views are explained and specific scenarios in which they may provide performance improvements are discussed.
Do you want intellisense for Query Analyzer? Many people would love this amazing enhancement that has long been available for Visual Studio users. It is now available as an add-in from PromptSQL and Brian Kelley reviews this amazing product.
As we all know, SQL Server 2005 has new features when compared to SQL Server 2000. One of the features that we are going to discuss in this article is the Row_Number() function. SQL Server Database administrators and developers have been longing for this function for a long time--now the wait is over.
In this series of articles, you will learn the basics of installing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 as well as how to use MOM to monitor SQL Server. This article takes advantage of virtualization. We will use VMware Workstation 5 to create the lab to introduce you to the basics of installing MOM to monitor SQL Server.
It's not recommended, but sometimes writing scripts against the system tables and getting information is a great way to work with SQL Server. Alex Grinberg brings us a look at some of the things you can get from system tables along with some sample scripts.
A question came up on an internal alias about how can one download a file over HTTP. Here's a script that does that, should be trivial to wrap it inside a task if you forsee doing this over and over again.
This shows you how to use the Script Transform to make intelligent decisions about your data and clean it appropriately.
In this review, Brian reviews one of his favorite tools in his DBA toolkit. He shows you some of the new features in this event management system and how it can shave hours off your day each day.
Continuing the coverage of debugging features in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Data Flow, which we started in the previous installment of this series, we will now focus on the Script Component.
SQL Server 2005 has deprecated osql and isql as command line tools and replaced them with SQLCMD. Haidong Ji brings us an introduction to this new tool and a few tricks to make you more productive when using it.
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CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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