Celebrate Our 1 year anniversary
Andwil, 06-Jun-2004: To celebrate the 1-year anniversary for their SASSI v2.0 professional SQL Development Environment application, Dynamic3 GmbH is offering a limited amount of SASSI license keys for FREE! To register for a free license key, visit the website now! http://www.sqlassi.net
Mini Disaster - AC Failure
Are you prepared to handle a full or partial failure of your AC system? Ever thought about what would happen if it did happen. Once again Andy offers comments on a real world incident. While we'd all like to think it will never happen to us, we think sharing these incidents is a great way to prevent it from happening to others.
Office System - Business Intelligence GTM/BI Accelerators Have Release
Today Microsoft announces the web release of the Microsoft Office Business Intelligence (BI) Accelerators. Both the Business Scorecards Accelerator and the Excel Add-In for Analysis Services empowers Information Workers and executives alike to increase the speed and quality of decisions aimed at improving business performance.
Case Sensitivity in Selects - Part 1
Your SQL Server has a case insensitive collation, but you need a case sensitive join? Do you know what happens? There are a couple options but do you know the performance implications of using each? Or a way to mitigate the performance degradation that can result?
SQLServerCentral.com - Featured Site!!
It's not often that we toot our horn, but SQLServerCentral.com was chosen as the feature site by GotDotNet.com, one of Microsoft's premier .Net sites. Check it out!
Making Good Use of Sysforeignkeys Table - Part 1: Display table relati
Sysforeignkeys is a valuable SQL Server resource. How many times have you had to "pick up the pieces" from a database developed by someone else and dropped on your desk? Ever get a database diagram with that? A data dictionary? Probably not too often. Jeffrey Yao has developed a system of finding those parent-child relationships automatically and displaying them so he can get up to speed quickly on these inherited databases. Read on to find out more.
SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 Gets Close
Microsoft began taking sign ups for participation in the SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 program this week at its Microsoft TechEd show here as the long-awaited test version of the product gets close to availability.
Database Tools for SQL Database Editing Released
Apex SQL Tools has released Apex SQL Edit 3.0, database Tools for database editing. Apex SQL Edit is an integrated development environment (IDE) for SQL Server including powerful editing capabilities, deployment capabilities, full integration with Visual Source safe as well as SQL Server Reporting services and much more.
Microsoft to Step Up Server Product Release Schedule
Microsoft Corp. is planning to deliver updates to its Exchange Server product every two years and is considering a similar move to deliver SQL Server updates in a more timely manner, company officials said at the TechEd 2004 conference.
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Fabric Mirroring
In which versions can I mirror a database from an on-premises SQL Server to a Fabric data warehouse?
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