Bill Wunder has donated his utility for those who have a free SQLServerCentral.com mebership. The DDL Archive Utility will look into a database and automatically archive the DDL from the database into Source Safe saving hours of hassles!
This e-seminar will discuss how Quest's performance diagnostic solutions for SQL Server can help you get the most out of your database. Learn, through real-world scenarios, how to increase database performance and ensure optimal availability of your SQL Server environment. This free e-seminar will teach you how to:
* Proactively diagnose and resolve bottlenecks
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* Maintain SLAs
This article shows how to use a DTS package to detect a file. After the detection of the file the processing of the file can be completed. This code in the .DONE processing section uses the Wscript.Shell command to unzip a file.
The behavior of SQL Server is influenced in many ways by the various settings and options available. This series will examine some of the ANSI options that can be set and changed in SQL Server.
Thanks to the more than 1,300 people that voted in the 2002 SQLserverCentral.com Reader's Choice Awards. Now that the voting is complete, find out who you voted to be the best SQL Server product and book.
Red Gate Software has released a new and improved version of SQL Compare, a simple $195 software tool for comparing and synchronizing SQL 7 and SQL 2000 database structure and contents.
What would you do if your SQL Server database mysteriously lost 11GB of data? Find out what happened to me. This story has a happy ending.
It's not a SQL book and the code examples are in Java, but there is a lot to like about this book. What is refactoring? How would you find it useful? Read the review to find out!
Binary data can be stored as integers in a table. This article explains how to query an integer field to return the bits represented by the integer.
This article demonstrates how to store checkbox results as integers in a database...perfect for surveys!
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We’ve all been there. Someone walks up and asks, “Is SQL Server having issues?”...
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In the beginning, there was OLTP – Online Transaction Processing. Fast, reliable, and ruthlessly...
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True or False: Tables with a SPARSE column consume more space than regular columns if most values are NOT NULL.
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