There have been a few releases over the last few days for some SQL Server 2008 tools that you may be interested in. The first one is the 2008 R2 Best Practices Analyzer found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlreleaseservices/archive/2010/06/19/sql-server-2008-r2-best-practices-analyzer-is-now-available.aspx And the second one is the 2008 R2 ...

I just had a situation in which we are automating the comparing of databases and I came across a bunch of Defaults that were never explicitly named. This causes them to get a new name each time you create them and makes it much more difficult to write future update scripts when you don’t know the actual name it will be. In any case I decided to ...

As a SQL Server consultant I get to see a lot of different sets of code written by all sorts of database developers from all over the world. And I have to say that one thing that is clear is most developers make abundant use of the NOLOCK query hint or the READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level. Now don’t get me wrong, I am NOT trying to say this is bad ...