This week Andy looks at where, when, and how jobs should be run and why you need to think about those items before you build the job. Part of this is deciding what runs on production servers and what doesn't.
2003-03-11
7,126 reads
The first article in a series about moving your data from one server to another. Steve Jones has some techniques he's used for upgrading hardware, replacing existing servers, or just moving to a different server.
2003-03-10
9,935 reads
The first part of this series provides a road map for a very cool application using an under-utilized companion of the SQL Server 2000 database platform.
2003-03-07
8,208 reads
In this series by Quest Software's Kevin Kline, he shows you some tips to performance tuning T-SQL. This was contributed by Quest from their recent webcast. This white paper discusses various T-SQL discovery, optimization and tuning techniques using the SET and DBCC commands.
2003-03-06
2,661 reads
How many databases do you manage that have a NULL owner? Hopefully none, but if you have one, want to know how to fix it, or just need a few minutes break from work, dig in and read how I solved this annoying issue.
2003-03-04
8,815 reads
This article is the first of a multi-part series detailing the SQL Server Upgrade process from the technical, logistical and business perspective.
2003-03-03
10,393 reads
There may be more ways than you realize to determine the version and service pack of SQL Server. This quick article by Dinesh Priyankara will show you 3 of those methods.
2003-02-28
22,059 reads
If your shop is even close to the typical Micosoft SQL Server environment there are several people that can (and do!) make changes to the production environment, a change management system is in place, that change management system uses Source Safe to store database scripts, and what's in Source Safe does not match what's on the SQL Server. This utility by Bill Wunder will archive your SQL scripts and DDL into Source Safe easily and efficiently. All for the price of $0 (yes, free!).
2003-02-26
270 reads
In his travels, Christopher Duncan has come to recognize a great many similarities between programmers and musicians. Both have the fire, passion and soul of the artist. And all too often, both are aweful when it comes to the business end of things. Business - you know, that aspect of your work where they actually pay you at the end of the day?
2003-02-25
3,496 reads
A new series that examines how you audit activity in SQL Server. The first part looks at simple data auditing in a table.
2003-02-24
13,134 reads
By Steve Jones
The season 1, seventh episode of Simple Talks is out. Check it out, with...
By Steve Jones
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There is a table tblItems with below structure ( i cannot change the below...
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I have disabled the LoggerCI index on the dbo.Logger table. How do I enable it?
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