Review of SQL Sentry (Lite)
Leo reviews a new product as a follow up to his recent article about Monitoring Failed Job Steps.
2004-04-12
4,416 reads
Articles
Speed up Development on Backend and Middle Tier with SQL Scripts
This article shows some options to retrieve all the metadata you'll need to write scripts that write scripts. No, that's not a goof, this article is about code generation.
2004-04-09
8,659 reads
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
Review of Guru's Guide to SQL Server Architecture and Internals
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
6,556 reads
Tame Those Strings - Using SUBSTRING
In this article by Steve Jones, he shows you how to manipulate strings.
2004-04-05
17,651 reads
Beginning ADO.NET
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
The Need For Speed - Upgrading Your Servers
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
SQL Server Auditing and Notification
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
Review of Review of SQL Server 2000 Administrators' Companion
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
Tame Those Strings - Part 8
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
Blogs
2024 PASS Data Community Summit Prep
By Steve Jones
Next week is the 2024 PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle. I’ll be traveling...
A New Word: Bye-over
By Steve Jones
bye-over – n. the sheepish casual vibe between two people who’ve shred an emotional...
Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
I’m hosting a free webinar at MSSQLTips.com at the 19th of December 2024, 6PM...
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Question of the Day
Incremental Statistics
I have run this on SQL Server 2022 for the Sales database:
ALTER DATABASE Sales SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON (INCREMENTAL = ON)I then run this in the Sales database:
USE Sales GO CREATE STATISTICS CustomerStats1 ON dbo.Customer (CustomerKey, EmailAddress) WITH INCREMENTAL = OFFThe dbo.Customer table is partitioned. How are statistics created? See possible answers