Best SoftTool, Inc. today announces that its flagship product SQLSourceSafe 2.0 is available for download and purchase. SQLSourceSafe is the integrated solution that Best SoftTool provides to meet the mounting market demand for a solid version control system for SQL Server database development. SQLSourceSafe integrates Microsoft Visual SourceSafe® and Microsoft SQL Server® together, offers robust and advanced version control functions to database scripts in SQL Server.

Creating Your Dream Project

by Christopher Duncan

SQLServerCentral.com

Miscellaneous

In this article, columnist Christopher Duncan shows you how to create your dream development project.

What is the search order for Procedures prefixed sp_?

by James Travis

SQLServerCentral.com

Performance Tuning

In this article, James Travis covers a common performance topic of prefixing stored procedures sp_. Does it really slow down performance?

A Sneak Peek at Entegra

by Brian Knight

SQLServerCentral.com

Product and Book Reviews

Recently, the SQLServerCentral.com labs had the chance to get a sneak peak at Lumigents latest creation, Entegra, which is scheduled to ship in the second week in December. Entegra monitors database activity and provides a complete record of access to the data and changes to database structure and permissions.

Move Your Master

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Administration

How often do you move your master database? Hopefully never, but this article looks at an easy technique should you need to perform this trick.

Worst Practice - Not Having An Archive Plan For Each Table

by Andy Warren

SQLServerCentral.com

Administration

We're curious to see what our readers have to say about this one! How many of us have tables accruing data that won't be used and/or isn't of any value? At what point do we get rid of it to free up resources?

Streamlining the Database Server Recovery Process

by Gregory Larsen

SQLServerCentral.com

Disaster Recovery (DR)

Are you tired of manually restoring each database on a new server when the original server has a melt down? Does the manual process seem slow, and prone to keystoke and mouse click errors? Would you like to have those restore scripts automatically built, so you only have to fire them off? Well this article will show you one possible method for speeding up and reducing errors will trying to perform a restore of all databases on a server.

Why Secure the Database?

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Security

You're behind a firewall, you have passwords. Why spend any great amount of time on extra database security? Steve thinks there are a few reasons why in this article.

SQL Server Notification Services Documentation

by Steve Jones

MSDN Communities

Administration

Microsoft has released the "Books Online" equivalent for Notification Services. Browse through and take a look to see if this service is useful to you.

Loading a Series of Flat Files

by Andy Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Andy Jones recently faced a requirement to load several flat files on a nightly basis. In this article, Andy Jones shows you how he accomplished this and shows plenty of code!

Best SoftTool Announces SQLSourceSafe 2.0

Creating Your Dream Project

What is the search order for Procedures prefixed sp_?

A Sneak Peek at Entegra

Move Your Master

Worst Practice - Not Having An Archive Plan For Each Table

Streamlining the Database Server Recovery Process

Why Secure the Database?

SQL Server Notification Services Documentation

Loading a Series of Flat Files

Blogs

Changing the Cardinality of a FK in Redgate Data Modeler

Future-Proofing: How to Stay Ahead in FinOps

Introducing the SQL Server on Kubernetes Operator

Forums

Removing TDE

Poor Names

The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI

Question of the Day

Removing TDE