Alex and his team are developing a game about software and some of the people who make it. He looks at how games affected his office culture, what he’s learned about designing games to do more than just be fun, and how his team are hoping to share their passion with the developer community.
2014-06-20
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Joe Celko finds a reference to Conway's Game of Life while clearing out his desk, and is suddenly gripped with nostalgia. It wasn't just flares, mullets and disco, but simple computer games in interpreted basic. Somehow, Conway's Game of Life was too intriguing to be abandoned in the attic. Can it be implemented in SQL? Joe sets up a challenge.
2014-06-16
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It's you versus the computer in the classic game of Battleship, completely playable from the SQL Server Management Studio interface!
2019-04-15 (first published: 2014-04-25)
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2005-03-23
thats a bit of a monster I'll take a look and see what I can do
2005-03-22
Paul,While in the Restore database dialog, click on the options tab, and select"Leave database nonoperational but able to restore additional transaction logs."for all but your last restore. When you restore your last transaction log backup (the one with the "point in time" that you are restoring to), then select "Leave database operational. No addtional transaction […]
2004-09-08
Interesting problem. I think what you want to do is loop through a series of departments and call a DTS package to email the results. At least that's what I'd do. Here's a looping example: http://www.sqldts.com/?246 Or my choice, use one package to loop and call another inside it: http://www.sqldts.com/default.aspx?215.
2004-09-07
I was having the same problem until someone told me that they were using a trigger on the msdb..sysjobhistory table to accomplish the failure notifications, I implemented it myself and it works great...it give the job name in the subject and the error message in the body of the email. The script below is the trigger, […]
2004-05-12
Ok, solution found !,We needed to call 'openquery' to do the insert, the following code is an example of how it was done;insert openquery(SERVERNAME, 'select field_1,field_2, field_3 from tablename') values (getdate(),'FINISHED', 'sql')This appears to work ok, with Sybase generating the Identity value as per any normal insert into the Sybase Db, returning no errors to SqlServer.Regards.j
2004-05-12
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If you want administer sql from the PC, install the client tools on that PC. This will set details in the registry and install the snap-in required.
2004-05-12
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