Embarcadero ER/Studio and DT/Studio Named Finalists for JOLT Product E
Press release about Embarcadero products being named finalists in the annual Jolt awards sponsored by Software Development magazine.
Help us Improve our Logo
Reader Rob Potter suggested that our logo could use some fine tuning and graciously submitted some ideas he had for doing just that. Come take a look and tell us what you think.
Take a Break with Pingu
It's not SQL Server related, but take a break and see how you do. The highest I've seen so far is 1602. If you beat it send a screen shot (small, please) to sjones@sqlservercentral.com
Worst Practice - Adding a Column Without Thinking!
Adding a column is one of the simpler tasks you'll ever do as a DBA, yet danger lurks! All too often we add columns without going through some type of check list to make sure we're safe. What could adding a column break? You might be surprised!
Review of ApexSQL Log
Brian has been busy lately helping us with content for our magazine (you have checked out www.sqlserverstandard.com haven't you?) but he's back this week with a great write up a new product that let's you read from the transaction log.
Review of Transact SQL Desk Reference
Looking for a good (or another) TSQL reference? This might be the one. Bruce took a good look at it and points out both the good and the bad.
Quest Releases TOAD for SQL - Freeware!
Quest Software has recently released TOAD for SQL Server, a freeware version of its highly popular Oracle tool - TOAD
Changing Databases Using XML
Need to apply changes to customer (or internal) databases in a calm, controlled manner? Dinish proposes an alterative to standard scripts that uses XML and a small VB app.
Contest!
We've run contests from time to time over the past couple years and had a lot of fun doing it. This time we're trying something new, partnering with Red Gate. Lots of good prizes on this one!
Review of Lumigent Log Explorer v4
Chris (one of our regulars!) installed Log Explorer and took it for a test drive. Written up in our standard review format this will give you a very quick overview of what the product does.
Blogs
Simplify Kubernetes Security With Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
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A New Word: Lackout
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Delta Lake over Spark Connect
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All Spark Connect Posts I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet...
Forums
Merge techniques
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant value...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
XML_COMPRESSION for existing tables
We are in the process of upgrading to SQL Server 2022 and would like...
Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers