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Spaghetti Code has already been mentioned. And it did/does exist (read legacy). An anecdote:
Many years ago I was hired at a firm to support the new...
May 7, 2010 at 9:18 am
This might help. There is a powershell script in the article.
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3764516/Discover-SQL-Server-TCP-Port.htm
March 23, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Select COALESCE(T1.State, 'String') as state
from table1 as T1
February 8, 2010 at 4:05 pm
Server Objects -> Linked Servers. A query would look something like this.
SELECT *
FROM [My Linked Instance01].[Mydatabase].[dbo].[customer]
January 12, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Good point! I never thought of it that way. We just do it like this because were lazy. 🙂
October 21, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I lied we used to copy to the test server. We hace a nice fast SAN now!
This is the code from our restore to test server job. This...
October 21, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Our production database is 266400.69 MB and a simple backup, copy to test server, restore on test works fine for us as a nightly job.
October 21, 2009 at 8:36 am
Use the Database Diagrammer built into Management Studio. Create a database. Expand it to see all the nodes. Right click on Database Diagrams. There wont be...
August 25, 2009 at 9:47 am
If you change the collation of a database only NEW data will be effected by that change. (Interesting!) You must move the data from DBa to DBb for...
August 7, 2009 at 7:56 am
2008 Standard runs nicely on XPsp2 and 3. I have an instance on this machine now. 2005 standard works too.
August 7, 2009 at 7:50 am
Having been a contractor the last 12 years, (But now a direct hire.) I would allow that I had been averaging n $ per hour when talking with the...
April 11, 2008 at 8:24 am
You mention you 'have a button', given that, we must asume that someone wrote a program to do a restore of a sort. This would most likey be a...
March 11, 2008 at 8:56 am
Another way to 'hide' a server and it's databases from the general user is to change the port it is listening on.
February 15, 2008 at 7:30 am
'Hot-add CPUs require the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 Datacenter or the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition for Itanium-Based Systems operating system.'
When there is no correct answer to a...
January 16, 2008 at 7:24 am
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