Review: Total SQL Analyzer
Total SQL Analyzer is a new product that can help document your SQL Server. This review examines the product and some of it's features.
Total SQL Analyzer is a new product that can help document your SQL Server. This review examines the product and some of it's features.
The Web Data Administrator is a utility program implemented in ASP.NET that enables you to easily manage your SQL data, wherever you are.
Alexander Chigrik presents a few Math UDFs he has developed for common functions.
This paper examines performance in transactional replication and demonstrates ways in which you can improve the performance of your applications. (30 printed pages)
This article examines an alternative method for finding the rowcount of a table besides using a select count(*)
This 80-page reference article presents guidelines for designing, building, and deploying COM+ applications, with an emphasis on Visual Basic.
SQL-DMO is a pretty cool way of working with SQL Server. Never tried it? Sean Burke offers a very readable introduction to how it works.
Last week's tip created quite a discussion on different techniques for returning a subset of a recordset.
Here are a few of the alternative solutions offered.
Early in September Andy posted an article that explained how to use DMO to reattach a lot of MDF's in a hurry AND challenged our readers to accomplish the same task in T-SQL. Today we announce the winning solution!
Here’s a way to centralize management, rotate secrets conveniently without downtime, automate synchronization and...
This may or may not be helpful in the long term, but since I’m...
By Steve Jones
“I’m sick of hearing about Red Gate.” The first article in the book has...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Dynamic T-SQL Script Parameterization Using...
When I log into my instance of SQL Server, there are many databases. I'm...
I have read that the collation at the instance level cannot be changed. I...
In SQL Server 2022, I run this code:
CREATE SEQUENCE myseqtest START WITH 1 INCREMENT BY 1; GO CREATE TABLE NewMonthSales (SaleID INT , SecondID int , saleyear INT , salemonth TINYINT , currSales NUMERIC(10, 2)); GO INSERT dbo.NewMonthSales (SaleID, SecondID, saleyear, salemonth, currSales) SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR myseqtest , NEXT VALUE FOR myseqtest , ms.saleyear , ms.salemonth , ms.currMonthSales FROM dbo.MonthSales AS ms; GO SELECT * FROM dbo.NewMonthSales AS nmsAssume the dbo.MonthSales table exists. If I run this, what happens? See possible answers