I need to copy a mass amount of tables in SQL Server to the same database (obviously renaming the tables). I need to include constraints, keys, indexes, etc, as well as data. (we need to copy an old ...

I am putting together a small utility in VB.NET that, in the end, should duplicate a subset of a MSDE database to a new database, detach the file, and move it to a location. The duplicate should have ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...

Continuing the discussion on VLDBs and SQL Server we need to look at the daily load of millions of rows. As stated before, doing this to an existing table with indexes will force the system to do a ...