Do Alpacas Dream of farming DBAs?
When IT starts to stand for 'Implement This', even the keenest DBA begins to dream of farming Alpacas as a career-change...and we ask our readers how they would have solved the DBA's dilemma.
2007-09-07
2,439 reads
Miscellaneous
Welcome To the World of ANSI compliant Occult :)
Warning: This script has no DBA value, but is useful for DBAs who have inclination towards occultƒº.Yesterday I had to decide the name of my new website. Since I wanted the name to be numerological correct. I wrote a T-SQL script for the same.For those of you who are not familiar with Numerology let me […]
2007-11-12 (first published: 2007-09-04)
603 reads
This SP will be create C# classes using all table
This SP will be create C# classes using all table in the specified Database
2007-11-13 (first published: 2007-09-04)
2,499 reads
Reverse Engineering Alias Data Types in SQL Server 2000 - Part II
Continuing with his series on Alias Data Types, Yakov Shlafman shows us how to work wtih ADTs when constriaints are involved.
2007-09-03
3,681 reads
The Importance of Fraud Analytics
Organizations with mature business intelligence environments can integrate fraud analytics within their current environment to take advantage of processes and architecture that are already in place.
2007-09-03
1,523 reads
sp_displaylogin - sybase style
this procedure takes a sql login name and returns information about the login.anyone who knows Sybase will recognise the name and layout. use :- exec sp_displaylogin 'loginname' to get login information returned.this procedure has been tested on SQL Server 2005 sp2any problems email pgr_consulting @ yahoo.com
2007-11-09 (first published: 2007-08-31)
1,193 reads
Get all user def table info
Get space for all user defined table information like size and row counts.
2013-12-27 (first published: 2007-08-29)
7,682 reads
Enums in SQL Server
SQL Server MVP Simon Sabin brings us a very interesting article on a possibilltyfor using enumerated values instead of integer or other coded foreign keys. It is an interesting idea that could go a long way towards making code easier to read.
2007-08-28
12,813 reads
2013-12-19 (first published: 2007-08-27)
20,669 reads
Delete Duplicates using CTE
Delete duplicates with a CTE (common table expression).This script uses the same setup as the anonymous post using a cursor (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/viewscript.asp?scriptid=1872).
2007-08-23
1,104 reads
Blogs
Focus on Core Skills
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The Backup Space Needed
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