Finding Real Dependencies

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.

Two Best Practices!

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!

Best Practices in an Adhoc Environment

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.

Duplicate Indexing Woes

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 - Text Parsing Routine

Full text indexing is interesting, but not always easy for the user to apply well. Chris has some ideas about to make that

Superior SQL Builder v1.3 released

Red Earth Technologies announces the release of version 1.3 of Superior SQL Builder, its SQL tool that allows users to visually build complete SQL scripts without typing any code.

Superior SQL Builder introduces new SQL scripting technology, allowing users to quickly and easily transform their database data. In version 1.3 this scripting technology has been extended and enhanced so that complex SQL scripts can be built in less time and with greater ease.

Codd's Rules

Frank gives us his take on Codd's Rules. If you're new to databases, this is the core theory that resulted in the development of RDBMS. If you're more experienced with databases, maybe now is a good time to return to the rules to see how you're doing!

Server side tracing in SQL Server, using system stored procedures

Ever wanted to use the SQL Trace system stored procedures instead of Profiler, but got intimidated by the cryptic system stored procedure calls? Then this article is just for you. It will show you how to use SQL Trace system stored procedures and provide you with wrapper stored procedures, that can be used to quickly get server side traces up and running.

Navigating Yukon - A First Look

Steve Jones takes a first look at the next version of SQL Server. It's been sitting for some time, but with the NDA lifted, here's some first impressions of the tools.

Worst Practice - Defining Rows that Exceed The Max Length

Andy started writing about worst practices a long time ago and returns this week with one that is short and sweet - why defining rows that exceed 8060 characters is a very bad idea and how you can avoid it.