Book Review:Admin 911: SQL Server 2000
This is a great administrative reference for anyone using SQL Server 2000.
Some Comments about our Discussion Area
Sometimes as hard as you look you just can't find the answer or idea you're looking for - that's when a good discussion forum comes in handy! Read this article for some tips and tricks on using our discussion forums successfully. Then when you have time, browse our current discussions and see if they work.
Storing and Retrieving Binary Data in SQL Server
Sometimes it is necessary to save binary data such as zip files, pictures or office documents into the database. This article looks at a way of using Java to perform this task.
Monitoring blocking on a Server
This article will demonstrate how to monitor active spids, blocked by spids,cpu,I/O,cmds and app name being issued in a real time fashion by using the cmd shell calling a T-SQL script and a resource kit utility.
Creating Folders Using VB and Recursion
Read this article to learn how to use recursion to simply the task of creating multiple levels of folders on disk. Perfect for creating a folder hierarchy for holding backup files!
SQL Server 2000: New Features Provide Unmatched Ea
SQL Server 2000 includes many new features that extend its capabilities as a high performance relational database system with a rich development environment. This article presents an overview of new product features including AWE support, new data types, new user-defined and built-in functions as well as enhancements in trigger functionality, indexing, collation, and property definition.
Index Statistics in SQL Server 7.0
A look at Index Statistics in SQL Server 7.0 and how to maintain them.
Optimizing DTS Data Loads
In this article, Brian Knight shows you the different ways to load data in DTS and how to optimize the Data Pump task for data loads. He also examines performance numbers on other data loading tasks in DTS.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Security
This document introduces SQL Server administrators and developers to the new security features of SQL Server 2000. In addition to outlining the new features, there is a detailed discussion about how to best implement security in a Microsoft Windows® 2000 domain environment as well as source code examples.
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Question of the Day
The LAGging NULL
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