Author: Ben Taylor

Editorials

Use a Table as a Message Queue

Featured Article(s) Installing and Configuring Reporting Services (Part 1 of 3) In this session, readers will learn the basics of installing Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. This session will cover common installation situations and will discuss some of the more common pitfalls that surround the installation. This session will also cover the basics of Reporting Services configuration options, including basic […]

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Scheduling Jobs for Your Databases

Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 full-text search In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems you can have with SQL Server 2008 full-text search. Scheduling Jobs For Your Databases Steve has been doing a series of Articles on TSQL, the last of which he focuses on Job Schedulers for SQL Server, TSQL 10 – Need To Know Information About […]

Editorials

Scheduling Jobs for Your Databases

Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting SQL Server 2008 full-text search In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems you can have with SQL Server 2008 full-text search. Scheduling Jobs For Your Databases Steve has been doing a series of Articles on TSQL, the last of which he focuses on Job Schedulers for SQL Server, TSQL 10 – Need To Know Information About […]

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Keep Up With MS Packaging

Featured Script Base64 Decoder This function takes a Base64 encoded string and decodes it. This function does not work for unicode data… (read more) Keep Up With MS Packaging One of the things about we can count on in Microsoft Packaging and Licensing is that it will change. I was recently shocked to find out that some of the SQL […]

Editorials

Keep Up With MS Packaging

Featured Script Base64 Decoder This function takes a Base64 encoded string and decodes it. This function does not work for unicode data… (read more) Keep Up With MS Packaging One of the things about we can count on in Microsoft Packaging and Licensing is that it will change. I was recently shocked to find out that some of the SQL […]

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One Response for Stored Procedures

Featured Article(s) TSQL 103 Part 2 of 2 Getting started with Stored Procedures, the benefits of them and much more. One Response for Stored Procedures So far I have only received one response to the previous editorial, "Are Stored Procedures the Only Way to Go?" Scott replies in much detail why he prefers to use stored procedures compared to inline […]

Editorials

One Response for Stored Procedures

Featured Article(s) TSQL 103 Part 2 of 2 Getting started with Stored Procedures, the benefits of them and much more. One Response for Stored Procedures So far I have only received one response to the previous editorial, "Are Stored Procedures the Only Way to Go?" Scott replies in much detail why he prefers to use stored procedures compared to inline […]

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PowerShell For SQL Server

PowerShell For SQL Server Yesterday I was looking in Google for syntax on a PowerShell commandlet and I came across a rant from a DBA complaining that they now had to learn PowerShell on top of everything else a DBA does. I had to take a look, and I found a nice gold nugget I had missed. With the release […]

Editorials

PowerShell For SQL Server

PowerShell For SQL Server Yesterday I was looking in Google for syntax on a PowerShell commandlet and I came across a rant from a DBA complaining that they now had to learn PowerShell on top of everything else a DBA does. I had to take a look, and I found a nice gold nugget I had missed. With the release […]

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Disk Fragmentation

Featured Script replace_substring This stored procedure can be used to search and replace substring in the char, nchar, varchar and nvarchar columns in all ta… (read more) Disk Fragmentation Disk fragmentation is one of the primary causes for database performance degradation. When tuning a database for performance there is always tension for reducing fragmentation on many levels. Tables can be […]