SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

Manually querying V$ views or AWR is inefficient and difficult to track over the long term. Through automated s, we can ...

A.1 Sample SQL Scripts Spatial Cartridge provides sample SQL script files to show how to use dynamic SQL in a PL/SQL block to create layer tables for spatially indexed data or to administer and ...

In part 2 of a series, On VB columnist Joe Kunk provides a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database.

An open source project gives DBAs the ability to channel PowerShell for automating and scaling complex SQL Server tasks, starting with the most basic: database backups.

It is, however, good coding style to indent the code for different control structures in your PL/SQL scripts the same way you would in other programming languages.

When creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you need to make sure your script can successfully connect to the database.

xSQL Software, a provider of SQL Server auxiliary tools and utilities, announced today the availability of xSQL Object 1.5, a utility for SQL Server database administrators and developers that ...

Man, I really do not want to do this by hand.To put it simply:I have a bunch of SQL Server 7 scripts.I need them to be a bunch of Oracle 8.1.6 scripts instead.Is there any automated utility out ...