Working with memory in SQL Server and tuning your server for optimum performance gets more complex all the time, especially with the availability of 64-bit platforms. New author Paul Mu brings us a short guide to using the /3GB and PAE switches along with their implications for your server.
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Scripting out your SQL Server 2000 objects is useful in any number of ways. You can save off the scripts for version control, generate the scripts needed to migrate to new hardware or a new environment, or just package up your application for deployment. Jon Reade brings us a look at the SCPTXFR utility, which can prove very valuable in managing your scripts.
This article examines a variety of ways in which you can execute all the SSIS packages in a folder.
In this presentation, Brian talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly of DTS migrations. Then, he shows you how to migrate a simple DTS package to SSIS and some of the challenges you will see.
We've been profiling quite a few members of the SQL Server development team and this time we get a few minutes with Ian Jose, one of the query processing team.
Arthur Fuller advises DBAs to try to break their software in order to make sure their SQL Server databases can withstand potential attacks. See if your code can hold up to his suggested tests.
In this second part video from Kathi, she covers how to write T-SQL in much more indepth. She covers how to handle NULLs and many more items in this video.
Continuing with his series on different aspects of Reporting Services, Asif Sayed examines the next installment with a step by step tutorial demonstrating the power of locally processed Reporting Services with the ASP.NET Web Client.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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