Freeware Extended Sproc to Read and Write to a Text File
This free extended stored procedure can read and write to a stored text file. Perfect for writing error logs!
This free extended stored procedure can read and write to a stored text file. Perfect for writing error logs!
This article analyzes the various options available for your backup and recovery process with SQL Server 2000 as well as an enhancement to your SQL Server backup and recovery process using a highly efficient backup and restore utility that provides significant time and disk space savings called SQL LiteSpeed.
forceSQL v2.0 is a much improved version of our SQL Password command-line tool. It now incorporates Brute Force in addition to Dictionary attacks. It works significantly faster because it now bypassess the SQL/ODBC API and directly goes to the network.
A free download and a much more detailed description is available at http://www.nii.co.in/tools.html
As a new DBA, you will probably walk into an environment that is poorly documented and nobody has any idea of how many SQL Servers are on the network. In the first series of articles, Haidong Ji talks about how to audit logins in your SQL Server.
A few months ago Greg Larsen ran across a big problem with SQL Server collation when querying. He shares his bruises in this quick article.
It's common knowledge among programmers that most of the ills of the software industry, and most particularly the companies where we work, could be solved by simply letting the technical people make the technical decisions. Obviously, since this is so incredibly logical and sensible, it's a given that most companies leave management decisions to managers, and technical decisions to the computer guys.
This article discusses an often-overlooked feature of SQL Server called user-defined data types.
A look at a fantastic new backup product from DBAssociates. This is the only 3rd party backup product that I would use or recommend.
Everyone does demos. You need them to sell your software, but the demo server presents some challenges. Continuing this series, this article looks at moving data between servers.
Andy discusses reasons why he thinks setting the default database to anything other than master is a mistake. We think he does a good job of covering the pros and cons, read the article and join the discussion!
Want to build a data analytics foundation that transforms raw data into valuable business...
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
By Tim Mitchell
Earlier this month, I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday invitation in which I asked,...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Concatenating Multiple Row Values into...
Hi there, I've tried CROSS APPLY, PATINDEX and many other functions, but can't nail...
What is the best way to continually loop a SQL Server Agent Job? I...
I have some simple sales data in a SQL Server 2022 database that looks like this:
TransactionDate SalesAmount 2023-01-15 1200.00 2023-02-22 1500.50 2023-03-10 900.75If I run this query, what are the sales growth amounts returned?
SELECT ms.TransactionDate , ms.SalesAmount , ms.SalesAmount - LAG (ms.SalesAmount, 1) OVER (ORDER BY ms.TransactionDate) AS SalesGrowth FROM dbo.MonthlySales AS ms;See possible answers