Other News

Pro Members SQL Server Standard Members

About Us

About Us: SQL Server MVP Stephen Wynkoop founded SSWUG.ORG in 1999 as one of the first cross-platform sites to cover enterprise technologies. Since then, the site has gone from being a part-time hobby to a reputable content provider with thousands of articles and video-based training sessions. Our mission is to provide relevant news and information on data management, collaboration software,...

This content is for Pro, Pro Member, Pro Member Annual - Fall Sale, Pro Member Monthly - Fall Sale, Standard, Standard Member, Standard Member Annual - Fall Sale, and Standard Member Monthly - Fall Sale members only.
Register
Already a member? Log in here
Community

Share Your Data as XML

(Sean Dillon) XML has quickly become the de facto mechanism for sharing data between disparate information systems. IT departments are deciding between purchasing native XML databases and converting existing data from relational and object-based storage to an XML model that can be shared with busine

Community

Index Internal Information

(Kalen Delaney) The sysindexes system table contains information about your index structures that you can’t get through information schema views. Every database has a sysindexes table, which contains one row for every index and one row for every column-based statistics on a table. In general, Mi

Community

Versioning

(Andre Vigneau) The question is why do you want to know which version of Microsoft SQL Server you’re running? In my case it is for compatibility purposes. Applications or scripts might not always be compatible with older versions of SQL Server. Also in the same way applications or scripts might n

Community

What Makes a Good Product

(Arjen Lentz) This article explores a few thoughts and observations that I see as relevant for the creation and marketing of open source in the real world. It is based on part of the keynote “How to Eat an Elephant” which I presented at the AUUG Annual Conference in Melbourne, September 2004.