Andy discusses one of the questions he uses to screen senior developer candidates. While the question itself is interesting, we think it will be more interesting to see how many of you agree with one of his positions - that developers think of program code and sql code as different animals, especially when it comes to debugging.
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Setting up SQL Server server-side traces is not the easiest task in the world. Quantum Software Research has built a product that is an MMC add-in to manage these traces. Author Dale Corey takes a look at this product and how well it works with SQL Server 2000.
Dark Horse CRM is an enterprise-class Customer Relationship Management application that allows companies to better develop and maintain customers. Visit www.darkhorsecrm.com for more information and to download the free version of Dark Horse CRM that runs on Java, Apache Tomcat, and MSSQL or PostgreSQL.
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Using sysforeignkeys to discover SQL Server circular relationships. Have you ever tried this? Most of us probably haven't, but Jeffrey Yao often needs to reverse engineer databases for his clients. Here's a followup to his first article where he presents another of his techniques for doing a little detective work in your databases.
SQL Server has a great backup and recovery architecture, but you have to know how to properly configure and use the server to ensure that you will not be seeking new employment anytime soon. A few of the Sonasoft team have written this short piece on strategies for setting up your backup jobs to ensure recovery in the event of a disaster. Welcome new authors Bilal Ahmed, Kiran Kumar, and Vas Srinivasan.
SQL Server has an abundance of third party tools, more being developed everyday. Indepth for SQL Server allows you to monitor the performance and activity on your SQL Server. New author Hiram Khakharia looks at this product from Veritas.
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I have this code in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE SCHEMA etl;
GO
CREATE TABLE etl.product
(
ProductID INT,
ProductName VARCHAR(100)
);
GO
INSERT etl.product
VALUES
(2, 'Bee AI Wearable');
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.product
(
ProductID INT,
ProductName VARCHAR(100)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.product
VALUES
(1, 'Spiral College-ruled Notebook');
GO
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE etl.GettheProduct
AS
BEGIN
exec('SELECT ProductName FROM product;')
END;
GO
When I execute this code as a user whose default schema is dbo and has rights to the tables and proc, what is returned? See possible answers