Saturday, October 29, 2005 - Posts

Precise and Deterministic Dates

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If you want to include a date literal i.e. '1 oct 2005' in an indexed view then it needs to be converted to a precise deterministic date.

BOL does include the information you need to do this but it's not obvious.

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posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:51 PM by SimonSabin with 9 Comments

Great features in Management Studio

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I am continuing to find great features in SQL Server 2005. The latest is the log viewer. You now have the power to display logs from SQL Server, Event log, Database Mail and SQL Agent all in on view, merged based on time.

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posted Saturday, October 29, 2005 4:33 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments