SQLDBControl BETA Testers Wanted
A new product has just been released in Beta to help you with source control for your SQL Server development. Beta testers are wanted, so if you're interested, read on.
Starting and Stopping SQL Server Part 2
Continuing with his series, Andy Warren looks at what it means for SQL Server 2000 to run as a service and some of the options you have for starting, stopping, and restarting your server.
SQL Server Notification Services Architecture
Most SQL Server 2000 DBAs have heard of Notification Services, but are they aware of how it works and what it's capabilities are? This is a great platform on which to build any type of messaging/notification/subscription application. New author and PASS board member Joe Webb brings us a look at this add on for SQL Server.
Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005
This paper describes the new CLR integration features of SQL Server 2005 and how database application developers and architects can take advantage of them to write user-defined procedures, functions, and triggers, as well as define new types and aggregates
DBGhost Review
The integration of SQL Server 2000 with version control is basically nonexistent. Managing and keeping track of your changes and files is a cumbersome task, and prone to have mistakes occur. There is a product that can help you with this called dbGhost and Jeremy Brown takes a look at this product and how it works.
Triggers for Auditing
Have you ever needed to audit your SQL Server 2000 database for changes to a table? A simple auditing solution is presented here by new author Tiago Silva using an INSTEAD OF trigger.
Microsoft SQL Server Migration Assistant
Are you looking to move your Oracle databases to SQL Server? You should be and when you convince your management to do so, Microsoft has a tool to help. New author Suresh Maganti of Scalability Experts brings us a look at how this works.
Using TRY/CATCH to Resolve a Deadlock in SQL Server 2005
A deadlock is an inevitable situation in the RDBMS architecture and very common in high-volume OLTP environments. A deadlock situation is when at least two transactions are waiting for each other to complete. The Common Language Runtime (CLR) of .NET lets SQL Server 2005 provide developers with the latest way to deal with error handling. In case of a deadlock, the TRY/CATCH method is powerful enough to handle the exceptions encountered in your code irrespective of how deeply nested the application is in a stored procedure.
The DBA Game
Are you up for a quick game of who's the best DBA? A little humerous diversion on one of the big holidays in the US.
Views in SQL Server
A view is a virtual table that consists of columns from one or more tables. Though it is similar to a table, it is stored in the database. It is a query stored as an object. Hence, a view is an object that derives its data from one or more tables. These tables are referred to as base or underlying tables.
Blogs
The Intersection Between DevOps and FinOps
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Fabric Mirroring doesn’t start copying Rows
A short blog post about an issue with Fabric Mirroring (with Azure SQL DB...
JSON_OBJECTAGG is an Aggregate: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I wrote an article recently on the JSON_OBJECTAGG function, but neglected to include an...
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Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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