Creating SQL Objects on the fly with VB and XML
A method for creating databases and other objects on the fly and distribute these objects to multiple servers.
A method for creating databases and other objects on the fly and distribute these objects to multiple servers.
This article by Neil Boyle examines techniques for speeding up your queries by writing better T-SQL.
Steve Jones reviews the premier DTS reference for SQL Server 2000.
This article discusses queries that involve more than one database server. For example, you can run a query that returns a joined recordset where some records come from a SQL Server™ database and others come from an AS/400 machine.
Differential backups are a new feature in SQL 7 that can speed up your recovery times when restoring from database and transaction log backups.
Lots of people are designing and building Microsoft Windows-based apps with previously unimagined reliability. Starbucks, GMAC, and FreeMarkets.com all have case studies demonstrating five nines. So, how are these companies able to achieve these levels of reliability?This month I am going to show you how to use standard Microsoft Windows technologies to make your Microsoft SQL Server™ app just like Denny's—“always open” and ready for business.
One of the keys to database performance if keeping your transactions as short as possible. In this article we will look at a couple of tricks using the CASE statement to perform multiple updates on a table in a single operation.
SQL is the lingua franca of server-side Web data apps. Some of the advanced features of SQL joins, views, rankings, and computed columns can drastically simplify your code.
In part one of a two part article, Andy Warren challenges the readers of SQLServerCentral.com to solve a problem involving ADO and SQL Server. Are you up to the challenge?
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I have created these triggers in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE TRIGGER triggertest_tri_1 ON dbo.triggertest FOR INSERT AS PRINT 'one' GO CREATE TRIGGER triggertest_tri_2 ON dbo.triggertest FOR INSERT AS PRINT 'two' GOI want to be sure that the trigger with "1" runs first. I decide to run this:
EXEC sp_settriggerorder@triggername = 'triggertest_tri_1', @order = 'first'What happens? See possible answers