By Tibor Karaszi, 11/10/2000
Elaine needs to transfer logins among SQL Server machines without network connections. John Northfield and Jason Watts found a solution for her.
By Tibor Karaszi, 11/10/2000
Stan wants to find out the names of the tables in his database using the IDENTITY property as well as seed and increment values without directly querying the system tables. ...
By Tibor Karaszi, 09/14/2000
Paul E. Matthews won first prize and Shafeek Ashroff won second prize for providing the correct solution to September's Reader Challenge: Registry Problems. Read the solution here.
By Tibor Karaszi, 07/26/2000
Why can Debra access a linked server through four-part naming but not through the OPENQUERY function?
By Tibor Karaszi, 07/13/2000
Readers help a DBA plan for an individual table restore in his new SQL Server 7.0 environment in case someone performs a malicious delete or update operation.
By Tibor Karaszi, 06/01/2000
The Reader Challenge moves online
By Tibor Karaszi, 03/22/2000
How can Christina send output to a table from statements that fail to return output as a proper result set?
By Tibor Karaszi, 02/28/2000
Find out how to move database log files with minimal downtime.
By Tibor Karaszi, 01/26/2000
The winner and answer to last month's reader challenge
By Tibor Karaszi, 12/20/1999
What date is it?
By Tibor Karaszi, 11/18/1999
The winner and answer to last month's reader challenge plus this month's question.
By Tibor Karaszi, 11/01/1999
Test your SQL Server savvy with this month's reader challenge on minimizing the number of machines you need.
By Tibor Karaszi, 10/23/1999
Test your SQL Server Savvy
By Tibor Karaszi, 10/01/1999
Delegate tasks by adding new stored procedures. Winners are announced.