Managing Jobs Part 3

• by Andy Warren

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

This week Andy looks at where, when, and how jobs should be run and why you need to think about those items before you build the job. Part of this is deciding what runs on production servers and what doesn't.

Migrating To A New Server : Moving Logins

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

The first article in a series about moving your data from one server to another. Steve Jones has some techniques he's used for upgrading hardware, replacing existing servers, or just moving to a different server.

Introduction to English Query and Speech Recognition

• by Sean Burke

• SQLServerCentral.com

• English Query

The first part of this series provides a road map for a very cool application using an under-utilized companion of the SQL Server 2000 database platform.

Analyzing and Optimizing T-SQL Query Performance Part 1

• by Additional Articles

• Quest

• Performance Tuning

In this series by Quest Software's Kevin Kline, he shows you some tips to performance tuning T-SQL. This was contributed by Quest from their recent webcast. This white paper discusses various T-SQL discovery, optimization and tuning techniques using the SET and DBCC commands.

Who Owns That Database?

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

How many databases do you manage that have a NULL owner? Hopefully none, but if you have one, want to know how to fix it, or just need a few minutes break from work, dig in and read how I solved this annoying issue.

SQL Server Upgrade Recommendations and Best Practices - Part 1

• by Jeremy Kadlec

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Installation

This article is the first of a multi-part series detailing the SQL Server Upgrade process from the technical, logistical and business perspective.

Ways to Determine the Version and SP of SQL Server

• by Dinesh Priyankara

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Service Packs

There may be more ways than you realize to determine the version and service pack of SQL Server. This quick article by Dinesh Priyankara will show you 3 of those methods.

Freeware : DDL Source Safe Archive Utility

• by Additional Articles

• SQLServerCentral.com

If your shop is even close to the typical Micosoft SQL Server environment there are several people that can (and do!) make changes to the production environment, a change management system is in place, that change management system uses Source Safe to store database scripts, and what's in Source Safe does not match what's on the SQL Server. This utility by Bill Wunder will archive your SQL scripts and DDL into Source Safe easily and efficiently. All for the price of $0 (yes, free!).

Pro Developer : This is Business

• by Christopher Duncan

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Miscellaneous

In his travels, Christopher Duncan has come to recognize a great many similarities between programmers and musicians. Both have the fire, passion and soul of the artist. And all too often, both are aweful when it comes to the business end of things. Business - you know, that aspect of your work where they actually pay you at the end of the day?

Auditing Your SQL Server - Part 1

• by Steve Jones

• SQLServerCentral.com

• Administration

A new series that examines how you audit activity in SQL Server. The first part looks at simple data auditing in a table.