A Look at SQL Server CE
An introductory article from Microsoft on the newest version of SQL Server: SQL Server CE designed for Windows CE devices. Includes some ideas for where this version fits in your architecture.
2001-05-30
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Articles
ANSI Joins
Are you confused by all this inner join style syntax that is becoming more and more prominent lately? This article by Neil Boyle will help you find your footing in the ANSI join syntax.
2001-05-29
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SQL Server 7.0 and 2000 Clustering Resources
A good place to start before clustering. Written by Brad McGhee, the founder of sql-server-performance.com.
2001-05-29
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Your Friend the Computer
You know it is time to reassess your relationship with
your computer when....
2001-05-28
1,594 reads
Removing NT Administrators as Sysadmins
By default, all NT administrators of the domain that your SQL Server is installed in, have SA rights in every database. This presents interesting challenge for DBAs, political and technical. Does your NT administrator group need SA rights to every database? The answer is no.
2001-05-25
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2001-05-25
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Quickly Enabling and Disabling Constraints and Triggers
In some cases, you may have to be able to quickly disable all the constraints and triggers in a database. This article shows you how to do this with a few lines of T-SQL.
2001-05-24
9,960 reads
Simplifying Instead Of Triggers
Instead of triggers are a new feature in SQL Server 2000 which greatly extend the functionality of triggers. This article covers a basic introduction to Instead of Triggers and illustrates possibilities for their use.
2001-05-24
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2001-05-23
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Using FileSystemObject with DTS
This article will show you how to use the FileSystemObject to determine the existence of a file inside DTS.
2001-05-23
8,331 reads
Blogs
Free webinar – Tackling the Gaps and Islands Problem with T-SQL Window Functions
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Temporary Table Problem
Hello everyone, I hope you can help me. I have a table with measurement...
A Few Good DBAs
You can't handle the truth!! (about data integrity) A few good database administrators https://www.helpmasterpro.com/blog/a-few-good-database-administrators/...
Python with SQL 2022 Enterprise doesn’t work
I have installed Machine Learning with SQL 2022 Enterprise Edition and installed and configured...
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