Common SQL Server and Windows Clustering Questions and Problems
This article covers some of the common issues and questions when you cluster SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000.
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.
Improve System Performance in Your Indexing Scheme Using Asynchronous
The Web Data Administrator is a utility program implemented in ASP.NET that enables you to easily manage your SQL data, wherever you are.
A Few Mathematical UDFs
Alexander Chigrik presents a few Math UDFs he has developed for common functions.
Transactional Replication Performance Tuning and Optimization
This paper examines performance in transactional replication and demonstrates ways in which you can improve the performance of your applications. (30 printed pages)
An Alternative Way To Get the Table's Rowcount
This article examines an alternative method for finding the rowcount of a table besides using a select count(*)
COM+ Application Guidelines for Visual Basic Development
This 80-page reference article presents guidelines for designing, building, and deploying COM+ applications, with an emphasis on Visual Basic.
Introduction to SQL-DMO
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.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
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