Automatically Gathering Server Information Part 2
The second part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
The second part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
The first part of Steve Jones's series on having SQL Server automatically report information to a DBA.
Get started with using WMI (Windows Mgmt Instrumentation) by seeing two good scripts to start with, one to reboot the server, another to list all the services.
Dinesh looks at the date functions, how to work with time zones (or not), and does a brief comparison to see how you do similar tasks in Oracle.
As Chris points out, in most applications these days you end up having to go with optimistic locking, which presents a few challenges. Chris works through the list of options. If you're building web/disconnected apps and need anything besides last update wins, this one is for you.
Sysdepends is a neat idea, but in practice it's not always accurate. This article talks about why it's not always reliable and presents some code (recursive even!) that will let you find all the dependencies by querying the system tables.
This article presents two best practices. One is about how to construct good table aliases, the other is about using ANSI join syntax. Good stuff!
This short article looks at some mistakes developers should avoid when they also have the task of designing the database, database objects, or TSQL used to access it.
Why would you ever create duplicate indexes? Does that even make sense? Steve Jones isn't sure, and that's for another day, but it sure caused him some problems. Follow along and find a solution for tracking these down.
Full text indexing is interesting, but not always easy for the user to apply well. Chris has some ideas about to make that
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