In this short article that follows up on an earlier one that discussed dependency issues we have some code that will generate simple treeview type view of the relationships between procs. Mostly code, more so than usual, but we thought you might find the idea useful!
You point this application at a database and it generates a code unti that allows you to easily execute stored procedures and functions from Delphi. (Not Reviewed)
In this article by Robert Marda, he shows you how to use derived tables to solve some of SQL's problems.
At a recent seminar, Steve Jones heard a quote that really struck home. Especially in the computer business. Read on about a look at a DBAs take on listening to what you hear and being a little cautious in how you interpret it.
This article covers how to build the snapshot subscription without getting bogged down in too many low level details. You'll learn enough here to get started experimenting and get results. Depending on comments from you, we may ask Andy to move on to transactional replication or to dig deeper into snapshot options. Tell us what you think!
Do your developers really understand how to prevent injection attacks? Or scarier still, how many know what an injection attack is? Chris has some great examples of how sql injection works and how to prevent it.
New Author! Written as a rant, this article covers a couple basic issues that STILL tend to get overlooked in a lot of places. It's run to rant sometimes but we plan to maintain our focus and continue to keep these a small percentage of our content. Let us know what you think.
Andy continues writing about replication, this week discussing the many options available when creating a snapshot publication. As we noted on his last article, this one may take longer than usual to load due the large number of images but we think the readability of having it all one page is worth while.
What code governs how a DBA acts? What is the framework for DBA ethics? There have been numerous articles on what the DBA job entails, the daily tasks and responsibilities. This article looks at the larger picture of principles which a DBA can use..
A free product from RAC4SQL, if you need something a little different maybe this will help. (Note: We're looking for a review of this, if you're using it drop us a note)
By Steve Jones
AI is everywhere. It’s in the news, it’s being added to every product, management...
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
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I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers