If you want to know the last Backup/Restore date of database, use the following --Last Backup date of database --Method 1 In Management Studio,Expand database,Right Click on the database and click properties Refer Last Batabase Backup which is availalbe...( read more)

It may be very useful if we have feature to take backup or restore a table I have posted my suggestion here Table level Backup/Restore What do you think of it?...( read more)

One of the users asked this question in the SQL forum I have data in the text as follows AccountNo: 00234543 AccountName: Kickser City: Chicago Country:USA AccountNo: 00234543 AccountName: Annis City: Seatle Country:USA AccountNo: 12234456 AccountName...( read more)

I do quite a lot of work in Switzerland: I lived in Basel for three years and still have a lot of friends and business contacts there as a result. I'll be there next week, in fact, and while I'm there I'll be speaking at the May meeting of the Swiss PASS chapter in Zurich. I'll be doing the same session I did at PASS Europe last week (so no prep time needed, luckily) on 'Designing Effective Aggregations in SSAS 2008'. All the details are here:

John Paul Cook has posted in his blog to show the list of tables that have no Referential Integrity. What if you want to know list of tables that have no primary and foreign keys? Here is the query select table_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES where...( read more)

Sometimes when you import data from other system , you may want to clean up data by removing unwanted characters You can use Replace function . Suppose you want to remove the character ^ from the string declare @str varchar ( 100 ) set @str = 'test...( read more)