What is Denormalization?

• by Chris Kempster

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Advanced

Chris Kempster brings us a basic look at the database design topic of denormalization.

Lockwood Tech is now ApexSQL!

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• Unknown

The name has changed, but the owner and the upgrade policies remain the same! Follow the link to see the press release that explains the name change.

Introduction to ADO Part 2 - Recordsets

• by Andy Warren

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Performance Tuning

Part two in the Introduction to ADO series, this beginner level article shows how to open a recordset, how to add and edit records, and touches lightly on how to select the best cursor type and locking mode. Good code samples help you get started fast!

Custom Log Shipping

• by Chris Kempster

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

One of our favorite authors is back with a great how-to on log shipping. This isn't the baked in log shipping, this is a code your own solution that gives you a starting point for your situation. Even if you don't need it now, it's worth looking at to gain a better understanding of how shipping works.

Bypassing Triggers

• by Andy Warren

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Triggers

This articles covers a variety of techniques to let you bypass or conditionally execute code in a trigger based on criteria outside of the inserted/deleted tables. It also includes a contest that gives you a chance to win a copy of our book The Best of SQLServerCentral.com 2002!

Find Min/Max Values in a Set

• by Dinesh Asanka

• SQLServerCentral.com

• T-SQL

New Author! The author tries to port a solution from Oracle and runs into a problem. Agree with the solution?

Database Migration Tool

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• Other

• Miscellaneous

New product designed to help you move from one database platform to another. (Not Reviewed)

A Methodology for Determining Fill Factors

• by Jeff Weisbecker

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Performance Tuning

New Author! Jeff had some questions about fill factors - but no answers! He did some work and came up with a set of recommendations for how and when to set your fill factors to something other than the default.

Brief Tutorial on Text, Ntext, and Image

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• MSDN Communities

• DataTypes

Joseph has written a couple articles for us and forwarded this link to an article he wrote recently on text type columns. You can see more of his work at http://qa.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/jgama/.

Who Cares about FillFactor?

• by Gregory Jackson

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Performance Tuning

New Author! The first of two articles this week on fill factors, this article looks at the impact fill factor can have on performance and shows you the key tools and counters you use to assess the impact of changes to fill factor.