2012-01-06 (first published: 2008-02-15)
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Administration
Change SQL Server stored procedures with batch editing
Learn how to change a group of SQL Server stored procedures (SPs) that perform tasks in your databases. Edit SQL Server SPs at one time with these steps.
2008-02-12
4,317 reads
Determining SQL Server database storage requirements
Determine accurate storage requirements for a SQL Server database with these methods. Calculate how to set storage requirements for a database application.
2008-02-04
4,540 reads
Becoming A DBA, Part 2
Buck Woody discusses the hard-earned knowledge and experience that you'll need to gain in order to stand out as a and professional and exceptional DBA.
2007-12-31
8,076 reads
Generate Scripts to Compare Tables
Generate the scripts that will allow you to compare tables pass/fail.
2011-09-07 (first published: 2007-12-28)
12,575 reads
Becoming A DBA, Part 1
Buck Woody examines examines some of the decisions you'll need to make when embarking on your DBA career, and some the character traits and skills that will help you succeed and progress.
2007-12-20
14,171 reads
Get record count for a specific database
This will sum all of the records of a specified database, excluding the 'sysdiagrams' table.
2013-10-23 (first published: 2007-12-17)
19,851 reads
2007-12-11
3,991 reads
Differential Backups Internals
Describes how data changes for differential backups are recorded using dbcc page
2007-12-11
4,384 reads
Moving the tempdb database
Moving the tempdb database in SQL Server is a simple process but does require the service to be restarted.
2007-12-06
3,660 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
Creating JSON III
In a SQL Server 2025 table, called Beer, I have this data:
BeerIDBeerName 1Becks 2Fat Tire 3Mac n Jacks 4Alaskan Amber 8KirinI run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG(
BeerID: BeerName )
FROM beer;
What are the results? See possible answers