This is an amazing article! Straight to the point, and highlights that we all will need to re-learn how to do basic stuff when we go to Cloud - which...

hey, really nice article. I missed it 2 years ago, but came here now and remembered from a blog post I wrote 5 years ago. talk memories!

in this...

what about performance? assuming EC2 and RDS with same cpu/ram settings, which option woud be faster?

great article, getting evidence of things that are NOT in use is lways a complicated matter, mostly because nobody wants to think about that.

does someone have a stored...

this is the kind of query that kills some servers - ranking. it's a bit hard to make programmers understand how important the performance of their code can have a...

now thats some old topic but it seems this issue is still fresh. I have just saw at the connect post that this same behaviour of identity happens on SQL...

I would add one column with the ID of the remote office inserting the record, to overcome the negative IDs and keep it small and "sequential" (GUIDs are mostly random).

Assuming...

great article. it's nice to revisit some basic topics from time to time. I never used marked transactions before, so I liked that example.

cya

just to add 2 cents: for a couple years I already use VMs to access some things that are important to me. I only turn them up, use that system,...

Great article, it's always good to show it again, as there is always people studying.

One question that came into my mind: is it possible to leverage Differencing Virtual Hard Drives...

thanks very much for the swift replies, Nimbell!

nice guide! I will try this myself when updating my certifications. probably will do it all on my desktop PC (even though with only 8GB RAM things may get a...

this was a really great article, that put together some tools previously available but that I never thought of using at the same time. it's great to see the examples...

sorry for bumping such an old thread (and about even older software), but maybe some more people has the (bizarre) need to connect to a SQL 7 instance.

I found a...