Koen Verbeeck (4/3/2015)

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Eirikur Eiriksson (4/3/2015)

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Are you grumpy because you are working on the Good Friday or was it the last night "preparation" for it...

ScottPletcher (4/1/2015)

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You can try to get SQL to make the ALTER the task that SQL kills if a deadlock occurs, but I've found it's not 100% effective.

SET DEADLOCK_PRIORITY -8

ALTER INDEX...

GilaMonster (4/1/2015)

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ALTER INDEX is a DDL operation, therefore it will be making changes to the system tables, hence needing locks on the rows in the underlying metadata. Without seeing the...

Brandie Tarvin (3/19/2015)

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I am so proud of myself. I learned how to do substrings and get month names out of C#.net all by my lonesome today.

Well, mostly. I had to...

Brandie Tarvin (3/19/2015)

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dwain.c (3/18/2015)

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I can disclose one fact. At my company, 90% of developers are men. Likewise, 90% of testers are women. I don't think we have...

GilaMonster (3/18/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (3/18/2015)

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GilaMonster (3/18/2015)

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Jack Corbett (3/18/2015)

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That was an interesting read. I can't disagree with any of it, but...

Brandie Tarvin (3/18/2015)

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GilaMonster (3/18/2015)

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Jack Corbett (3/18/2015)

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That was an interesting read. I can't disagree with any of it, but I...

Grant Fritchey (3/18/2015)

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OMG! That explains why I've been doing...

Brandie Tarvin (3/16/2015)

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Ed Wagner (3/16/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (3/16/2015)

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Ed Wagner (3/16/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (3/16/2015)

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So I'm reading my Database Weekly this morning and find a link to Brent Ozar's SQL Rally commentary[/url]. Funny, I...

Sean Lange (3/5/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (3/5/2015)

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SQLRNNR (3/5/2015)

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dwain.c (3/5/2015)

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Is it just that it's been so long that I haven't posted one, or does the Article Contribution Center (article editor) not play well...

Yeah, that's what I thought. I figured I should ask to be absolutely sure.

Lynn Pettis (3/2/2015)

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Thank you all for the welcome home messages. It is great to be back in the USA. You don't realize what you have until you don't...

Hope your trip home is wonderful

Absolutely! I frequently move people from Access to SQL Server Express.

Brandie Tarvin (2/26/2015)

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Steve Thompson-454462 (2/26/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (2/25/2015)

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Need some advice, all. I'm about to rewrite a novel of mine and I need references for research. My protagonist (the star) is humanoid...