Robert Vallee has announced that he will release the source code to SQL Insider early to September 15th. On that date, members will be able to download the source code and make modifications to the program.
Give this test to your boss...only if he has a sense of humor!
Ever wonder what a DBA does? Ever had someone ask you what your job entails? Here's an overview of what a DBA does. Reader feedback will be used to update this article over time.
Are you thinking of becoming a master DBA? If so, find out how you can in this article.
Want to learn more about some of your favorite authors. Check out this interview with Louis Davidson, author of Professional SQL Server 2000 Database Design.
This article examines some of the common issues that may occur when installing SQL Server 7.0
A great deal of data in any RDBMS is hierarchial. This article presents a technique for aggregating this data.
Lumigent has updated their transaction log analysis tool to include a number of features that every DBA will find handy. Read this review of a great new product.
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 allows you to restore transactional replication databases without reinitializing subscriptions or disabling and reconfiguring publishing and distribution. You can set up replication to work with log shipping, enabling you to use a warm standby server without reconfiguring replication.
We all know what the ideal application design environment is for building a database back-end: an experienced DBA takes inputs from end users and developers and creates the database design in order to support the application being developed. But in reality, we don't get the opportunity to do application design like this very often. This article covers how to quickly find and fix problems in a design.
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I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
player yearid team HR Alex Rodriguez 2012 NYY 18 Alex Rodriguez 2013 NYY 7 Alex Rodriguez 2014 NYY NULL Alex Rodriguez 2015 NYY 12 Alex Rodriguez 2016 NYY 9If I run this code, what are the results returned in the hrgrowth column?
SELECT player , yearid , hr , hr - LAG (hr, 1, 0) IGNORE NULLS OVER (ORDER BY yearid) AS hrgrowth FROM dbo.playerstats;See possible answers