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 ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database. In part one of this article, I described a ...

but this SQL script will do the job for many flat file scenarios, just edit the start row, field terminator, and row terminator as needed. Next, click on the Schedules page and add an import ...

I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server). If this was easy ...

It is, however, good coding style to indent the code for different control structures in your PL/SQL scripts the same way you would in other programming languages. Indenting makes it easier for ...