As Chris points out, in most applications these days you end up having to go with optimistic locking, which presents a few challenges. Chris works through the list of options. If you're building web/disconnected apps and need anything besides last update wins, this one is for you.
2003-12-19
9,477 reads
Sysdepends is a neat idea, but in practice it's not always accurate. This article talks about why it's not always reliable and presents some code (recursive even!) that will let you find all the dependencies by querying the system tables.
2003-12-18
9,440 reads
This article presents two best practices. One is about how to construct good table aliases, the other is about using ANSI join syntax. Good stuff!
2003-12-17
10,845 reads
This short article looks at some mistakes developers should avoid when they also have the task of designing the database, database objects, or TSQL used to access it.
2003-12-16
7,934 reads
Why would you ever create duplicate indexes? Does that even make sense? Steve Jones isn't sure, and that's for another day, but it sure caused him some problems. Follow along and find a solution for tracking these down.
2003-12-15
5,104 reads
Full text indexing is interesting, but not always easy for the user to apply well. Chris has some ideas about to make that
2003-12-11
12,194 reads
Red Earth Technologies announces the release of version 1.3 of Superior SQL Builder, its SQL tool that allows users to visually build complete SQL scripts without typing any code.
Superior SQL Builder introduces new SQL scripting technology, allowing users to quickly and easily transform their database data. In version 1.3 this scripting technology has been extended and enhanced so that complex SQL scripts can be built in less time and with greater ease.
2003-12-11
327 reads
Frank gives us his take on Codd's Rules. If you're new to databases, this is the core theory that resulted in the development of RDBMS. If you're more experienced with databases, maybe now is a good time to return to the rules to see how you're doing!
2003-12-10
20,396 reads
Ever wanted to use the SQL Trace system stored procedures instead of Profiler, but got intimidated by the cryptic system stored procedure calls? Then this article is just for you. It will show you how to use SQL Trace system stored procedures and provide you with wrapper stored procedures, that can be used to quickly get server side traces up and running.
2003-12-10
1,891 reads
Steve Jones takes a first look at the next version of SQL Server. It's been sitting for some time, but with the NDA lifted, here's some first impressions of the tools.
2003-12-09
7,838 reads
By James Serra
There are three Azure SQL products with so many different deployment options, service tiers,...
By Steve Jones
I hosted this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party with my invitation asking about tracking permissions....
By Steve Jones
I was asked to do some a little thinking and brainstorming recently. Rather than...
I just learned that my database was created on my C:\ drive in the...
I am needing to migrate a MSSQL db to MySQL, on a different server...
Hi we run 2019 ssas std. Yesterday i imported my tabular project to vs...
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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