Restore a DTS package from a DTS Store
Probably not a task you'll have to do very often, all the better that someone has laid out how to do it in good detail!
2004-04-08
9,859 reads
Probably not a task you'll have to do very often, all the better that someone has laid out how to do it in good detail!
2004-04-08
9,859 reads
If you are (or want to be) a power user, this book should be on your shelf. How many books have you read that have you using a debugger to step into the sql server process? James gives it a thumbs up!
2004-04-07
6,555 reads
In this article by Steve Jones, he shows you how to manipulate strings.
2004-04-05
17,651 reads
One of the strengths of Visual Studio .NET is its features for rapid application development, or prototyping. If, for example, you want to develop a Windows form that lets you maintain the data in one table of a database, you can usually do that in 20 minutes or less. This article will show you how.
2004-04-01
288 reads
Do you have the need for more speed on your servers? How do you go about squeezing more speed out of the database when faced with an upgrade? Steve Jones walks through some of his thought process when looking at ugprade for one of his servers.
2004-03-30
6,463 reads
As Jeff says, "There are lots of articles about how to do auditing, but there are few discussions about how to use the auditing results in a real time environment". Well, now we have one that shows you how to do it!
2004-03-29
9,161 reads
Nice write up on the Admin Companion. Should you add it to your bookshelf? Frank offers his frank opinion.
2004-03-26
4,130 reads
Continuing Steve Jones' series on string manipulation in T-SQL, this article examines how quotations are handled in T-SQL.
2004-03-25
9,025 reads
It's not often you'll need to access the registry from SQL, but when you do - these functions make it happen!
2004-03-23
9,393 reads
A week ago, we solicited readers to let Microsoft know which of the SQL Server 2005 announced features mattered most to them. We had a great response, with 890 of you answering the survey in three days. The answers were pretty interesting. The full results can be seen at the bottom of this article.
2004-03-22
11,204 reads
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
By Steve Jones
I looked at row_number() in a previous post. Now I want to build on...
Recently I received a cry for help over Teams. The issue was that an...
Given the following table and query, this will return any records(based on message_id) that...
How to merge two tables with unlike fields. I have two table with one...
Hello, First of all, I find it odd/annoying that I can't exclude a Project...
I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
player yearid team HR Alex Rodriguez 2012 NYY 18 Alex Rodriguez 2013 NYY 7 Alex Rodriguez 2014 NYY NULL Alex Rodriguez 2015 NYY 12 Alex Rodriguez 2016 NYY 9If I run this code, what are the results returned in the hrgrowth column?
SELECT player , yearid , hr , hr - LAG (hr, 1, 0) IGNORE NULLS OVER (ORDER BY yearid) AS hrgrowth FROM dbo.playerstats;See possible answers