Null Functions (Arent those Meetings?)
Dinesh did a little research on nulls and was kind enough to package it up for us. How many of you know or use NULLIF? Or COALESCE? Handy stuff!
2004-03-18
10,155 reads
Articles
Dump SQL Permissions
We saw a note from Chad about a tool he wrote in the forums and asked him to write up some notes. Not only did we get notes, we got the source code! See what a DBA can do with some DMO.
2004-03-17
18,578 reads
Review of Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Visual
We get books in occasionally for review and have started making them available to our existing authors. Jim was interested in this one - turns out he didn't find much to like. If you're a beginner it might be a better fit. Or maybe you've read the book and disagree?
2004-03-16
4,911 reads
What You Don't Know
A very short article that discusses how nulls can ruin your day if you don't understand how they behave when you concatenate.
2004-03-15
6,076 reads
Review of ApexSQL Report v4.3
We had Mike take a look at this product recently and he found a lot to like. He also had some suggestions about ways the product could be improved - interesting since you get free upgrades for life with this product. This is a very good walk through of the product.
2004-03-12
4,804 reads
Yukon Delayed Again and Named
Microsoft confirmed today that it has delayed Yukon yet again. It also announced that Yukon has an official name and will have another beta added to the development cycle. Get all the info here and share with Microsoft your thoughts about what features are important to you.
2004-03-11
17,791 reads
Worst Practice - Not Qualifying Objects With The Owner
Regular columnist Chris Hedgate follow up on Andy's recent article about Worst Practices with one of his own. This is worth passing on to your development team.
2004-03-10
17,287 reads
Reporting Services!
Mike takes a good first look at Reporting Services. We're trying to add some coverage of this interesting new product. This gives a good overview from a real user perspective.
2004-03-09
10,516 reads
2004-03-08
10,978 reads
Generate Next Numbers with SQL Server
Dinesh ran into a situation where a client had very specific requirements for generating keys. Take a look at the solution, can you better alternatives? Sometimes you just can't talk the client into changing!
2004-03-05
15,218 reads
Blogs
Azure SQL offerings
By James Serra
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers,...
T-SQL Tuesday #183 Roundup
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions....
A Little Brainstorming with an AI
By Steve Jones
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than...
Forums
MEMORYBROKER_FOR_RESERVE experience
Hi, Does anyone have experience with MEMORYBROKER_FOR_RESERVE ? when suddenly there is somehow constantly...
Moving Database Files
I just learned that my database was created on my C:\ drive in the...
Migrate MSSQL to MYSQL - Different Servers
I am needing to migrate a MSSQL db to MySQL, on a different server...
Question of the Day
Mixed Backups
I have a complex database with a few filegroups and files. Can I run a backup command like this? (assume file/filegroup names are valid).
BACKUP DATABASE [complex]
FILE = N'thirdone'
, FILE = N'thirdtwo'
, FILEGROUP = N'second'
TO DISK = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL16.SQL2022\MSSQL\Backup\complex.bak'
WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT, NAME = N'complex-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO
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