SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

SQL makes it possible to work with very large datasets that would be hard to manage with the graphical interface. You can also save your SQL scripts to use in the future or share them with others ...

The program only generates a T-SQL script; it does not make any changes to the database structure or data directly when run. Print statements are included throughout the script to display a log of ...

Indentation in your HTML and PL/SQL code is not strictly necessary, as the interpreter still will correctly parse different code segments as belonging to different control structures without ...

Joey on SQL Server Getting Started with Dbatools for SQL Server An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting ...

xSQL Software, a provider of SQL Server auxiliary tools and utilities, announced today the availability of xSQL Object 1.5, a utility for SQL Server database administrators and developers that ...

Man, I <I>really</I> do not want to do this by hand.<P>To put it simply:<P>I have a bunch of SQL Server 7 scripts.<BR>I need them to be a bunch of Oracle 8.1.6 scripts instead.<BR>Is there any ...

Flat File Import into SQL Server Now that you’ve automated the fetching of your flat file via FTP, the next step is to automatically import that file into SQL Server.