SQL Maintenance Plans - Under the Covers!
In this follow up article Andy looks at how maintenance plans report errors and how they actually accomplish what they do. A little snooping with Profiler reveals all!
Designing a Flexible Task Management Database
In this article by Jamie Voss, he shows the methodology he used to develop his task management database.
SQL Security Resource Center Opens
SQLServerCentral.com is proud to launch it's first Resource Center for security. It's a one-stop shop for anything related to SQL Server security. All content is user-contributed and contains links to content throughout the web.
Freeware Product : ASPReport
It provides an infrastructure to create and manage various SQL Server stored procedure based reports into HTML output. You can add reports, categorize them in a treeview, edit, delete and manage the report parameters - all through the web interface. Members can now download this as Freeware at SQLServerCentral.com.
Understanding Your Identity
Is the Identity property part of a transaction? I always thought so, but decided to test it and see what happens.
How Dynamic SQL Can Be Static SQL Part 2
This article shows you how to use the CASE function to design single query solutions that have changing results depending on the values you assign to variables. These techniques are extremely useful as alternatives to dynamic SQL.
Version Control for Stored Procedures
Version control for stored procedures isn't always popular and certainly isn't easy. Or can it be? Andy discusses a technique he used on a recent project that you might find interesting.
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BCP on Linux
When running bcp on Linux, what is the field terminator?
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