The 'bin packing' problem isn't just a fascination for computer scientists, but comes up in a whole range of real-world applications. It isn't that easy to come up with a practical, set oriented solution in SQL that gives a near-optimal result.
2012-04-06
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Learn how to build a CLR function that can be used to perform string manipulations that might be rather complex in T-SQL.
2012-04-05
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If you are running an instance of SQL Server 2005 and above then most likely that instance is running the default trace. This default trace is a canned Profiler server side trace that automatically starts up when SQL Server starts. In this article Greg Larsen explains more about the default trace and shows you how to glean some event information from the trace files created by this background trace process.
2012-04-05
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This SSIS package generates XML invoice documents from data stored in SQL Server, then FTPs and/or Emails them to clients.
2012-04-04
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Red Gate Software has released Version 3.0 of SQL Monitor, a performance monitoring and alerting tool.
2012-04-04
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A free day of SQL Server training in Atlanta, GA on Apr 14, 2012. Sign up today if you will be in the area.
2012-04-04
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Wouldn't it be great if your HR folks only had to put in HR-SQL.mydomain.com for the database connection in their reports? They wouldn't have to remember it was on server Nile and they certainly wouldn't have to change their reports if you migrated their database from the Nile server to the server named Danube. In DNS there are two easy ways to do this.
2012-04-04
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This article describes the use and advantages of the throw statement.
2012-04-03
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When you need to restore but aren't 100% sure about the contents of your backup files, what do you do? Head to the headers. Grant Fritchey explains how to find the useful bits in these huge stores of information and make sure you restore the right files.
2012-04-03
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Come to a free day of SQL Server training in Bogota, Columbia on Apr 14, 2012.
2012-04-03
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I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
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Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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