Which one is better for reporting tool: open source or charge?
After making reports for a long time, I found something strange recently. Various reporting tool vendors advertise by all means to attract users' attentions; however, programmers show great interests...
View Articlemandatory participation at both ends
Hi if you have two tables with a 1:1 relationship and mandatory participation at both ends, how do you implement this in MS SQL 2008Here is the code I have written but it does not work and I dont...
View Articlexp_cmdshell alternative
I need help here...xp_cmdshell is disabled and I need to run this type of code within a SQL Server Agent Job...Can anyone help me on how to use SQLCMD or similar code within a SQL Server Agent job...
View ArticleQuery Parallel Tables
I'm acquiring a mailing list with over 1,000,000 records, in over 50 CSV files (by state, I think). I expect to be modifying the list myself -- adding fields, adding & changing records -- as well...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Replication Advice
Hi!We have three installs of SQL Server 2008 Enterprise and would like to replicate them to a fourth SQL Server 2008 Enterprise server. 2 of the installs are remote (different city) and available via a...
View ArticleUser Name Best Practices
Use Pascal Casing ( or Hungarian Naming after Charles Simonyi) like:SalesOrderHeader, SalesOrderDetail, Product, ProductPhoto, ProductDocumentIf you inherit a table with spaces in name, you will be...
View Articledatabase
i m doin engineering from india. looking for future in database ...nd which course i should study first nd am also looking to certification course in database...so which certification should i give nd...
View Articlenew sql server instance or use existing?
HI, I have sql server 2005 installed on our sbs 2008 server. I want to install the database for outlook business contact manager on the server but I am not sure if I should create a new instance or...
View Articledb design question
i have db designed like thiscust(custid, name, addr1, addr2, city, state, zip) vendor(vndrid, name, addr1, addr2, city, state, zip)store(storeid, name, addr1, addr2, city, state, zip)I was asked why...
View ArticleDatabase design question - binary data
Hi, I have many files being uploaded to a web site and at first decided to save to the file system (mostly pdf's). I did this so no pressure would be put on the sql server. Does anyone have any...
View ArticleProblem inserting ID value from one SQL table to another using CreateUserWizard
I am need to insert ID value (CustomerID) from one table (Customers) to another (Categories) when new user is created.Following is my tables structure:Categories Table: ID Int Not Null PK CustomerID...
View Articlebig table, 20 million rows, used as a usage log, to partition or not?
Hi. We have a table used for storing live usage stats called tblUsageLog. So, inserts are occuring quite often.It now has 20 million records for about 5 years of activity.It is used for some reports.It...
View ArticleSQL2008 - How to Script a Database Role?
Need to copy an existing database role on a selected database. The setup is very complicated and would take a while to mimic, with the few changes it needs.Is there a way to output the existing role...
View ArticleSelect records in Table A that are NOT in Table B?
I have two tables A and B in a 1:1 relationship. Table A has many records, Table B a few, and the tables share a key unique index field "kindex". That is, any record in B corresponds to a record in A...
View ArticleOne table or many?
The challenge:The company has 280+ lists in multiple systems across the enterprise (SharePoint, Access, Excel, Home Built Web App, Accounting System, etc.) they want me to move all of the data into the...
View ArticleSchema Design
I am in the process of building out a data mart that consolidates data from a large number of applications where each has their own database. While I have direct access to some of the application's...
View ArticleStoring Processed/transformed data
Hi all i have a database which contains raw unprocessed data. This data is processed by an etl type tool where the results will be acccessed by downstream systems that are meant access it. If anyone...
View ArticleHow to design database for millions of concurrent users relying on each...
This is completely new game application being developed and I want the design to be highly scalable. As each user's score changes (increases or decreases by certain number) it will be updated to the...
View ArticleAbout SQL
Hello all,I am new and I would like to ask that what are the benefits of sql training, what all topics should be covered and it is kinda bothering me ,and has anyone studies from this course...
View Article"Fuzzy" query results?
Hi all, I have the following query: SELECT distinct a.aid FROM apartments a, details d WHERE a.aid = d.did AND d.did in (13,25,27) It basically joins two tables, apartments, and apartment details. The...
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