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Newsletter Archive: April 2008

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1st

SQL Server Central Newsletter

  • SQLskills.com Announces Time-Setback Technology for DBAs
  • Database Wars Coming for the XBOX 360
  • SQL Sleep
  • The New SQL OS
  • April Bloopers
  • Generating combinations 'm elements from n-element set'
2nd

SQL Server Central Newsletter

  • Why Read-only Table Parameters is Not Enough
  • Mine Data from Text Files
  • SQL Server Table Types
  • Nuggets from My SSIS Experience
  • A Scary Comparison
  • Convert binary SID to string
3rd

SQL Server Central Newsletter

  • Find blocking processes using recursion in SQL Server 2005
  • Implementing Error Handling with Stored Procedures
  • Transactions in Transactional Replication
  • SQL Server Index Checklist
  • Try To Be More Inefficient
  • Available bytes for row expansion (adding columns) in a table
4th

SQL Server Central Newsletter

  • Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps
  • Gotcha! SQL Aggregate Functions and NULL
  • Automating SQL Server Profiler
  • Handling Data Integrity Issues in Analysis Services 2005
  • Multiple Personality
  • Show all database's tables' columns' collations.
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Database Weekly

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    SQL Server Central Newsletter

    • Row Level Versioning
    • The New MVPs
    • TSQL String Array Workbench
    • Building and customizing SQL Server script templates
    • The Cost of Support
    • Compare Different tables from 2 Databases
    8th

    SQL Server Central Newsletter

    • Inside The Question of the Day
    • Virtualization for Database Development
    • How to Share Data Between Stored Procedures
    • Securing Data
    • Table Information View -- No Cursors!
    9th

    SQL Server Central Newsletter

    • Top Queries in SQL Server 2005
    • XML Workshop XVIII - Generating an RSS 2.0 Feed with TSQL
    • SQL Server Tracing: An Automated and Centralized Solution
    • The Feature Debate
    • Create_sp_help_revlogin_DB
    10th

    SQL Server Central Newsletter

    • Yet another way to include portability on DTS packages
    • Issues with running backup log with no_log or truncate_only
    • Joining to the Next Sequential Row
    • The Social Mesh
    • Comprehensive Backup Script
    11th

    SQL Server Central Newsletter

    • How to Implement an Automatic Sliding Window in a Partitioned Table on SQL Server 2005
    • SQL Server 2005 Logins
    • Creating a Scorecard in PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS)
    • Historical Dollars
    • Find and Replace a String in the Whole Database
    12th

    Database Weekly

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      SQL Server Central Newsletter

      • PASS 2008 - Article
      • Analyze and Correct a large SQL Server MSDB Database
      • DBA Morning Check List
      • Storing Images and BLOB files in SQL Server Part 4
      • Bloated
      • Clear database - delete all records from a database (updated)
      15th

      SQL Server Central Newsletter

      • Giving Permissions through Stored Procedures
      • Lesson Learned from Contracting, Revisited
      • Designing Tables for Audit Data in SQL Server
      • The Optimists
      • SQL Server 2005 - Backup, Integrity Check and Index Optimization
      16th

      SQL Server Central Newsletter

      • theSystem - Part II
      • myLittleAdmin for MS SQL Server 2005
      • SQL Server Script to Create Windows Directories
      • Sun Invests, IBM Invests, MS ??
      • Discover Unique Columns
      17th

      SQL Server Central Newsletter

      • SQL Data Generator
      • Reverse engineering alias data types - Part 5
      • SQLSaturday - Jacksonville
      • High Availability (DR) Using SQL Server 2005 Transactional Replication
      • Hunting Developers
      • Report SQL SERVER 2005 Permissions
      18th

      SQL Server Central Newsletter

      • Recursive Queries in SQL Server 2005
      • Integrating Reporting Services into Your Application
      • Set Functions: The StripCalculatedMembers() Functio
      • Up or Down?
      • Removing Duplicate Records
      19th

      Database Weekly

        20th
        21st

        SQL Server Central Newsletter

        • Identify SQL Server 2005 Standard Login Settings
        • SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 20 - Authenticating Merge Web Synchronization
        • Error Handling in SSIS
        • The Inmates in Charge
        • Padding function
        22nd

        SQL Server Central Newsletter

        • File Handling A Different Way
        • SQL Server 2005 log shipping setup using the wizard
        • SQLSaturday - Jacksonville
        • SQL String User Function Workbench: part 1
        • Table Level Access
        • Alter Index with Rebuild
        23rd

        SQL Server Central Newsletter

        • Reading the SQL Server log files using T-SQL
        • SQL Server 2005 Build List
        • Sending scheduled SQL query results via HTML e-mail using SSIS
        • Same Report but Different Methods in SQL Server Reporting Services
        • The April Energy Update
        • Select from stored procedure
        24th

        SQL Server Central Newsletter

        • Tracer Token
        • UPSERT Functionality in SQL Server 2008
        • Retrieve XML data values with XQuery in SQL Server 2005
        • The Tax Warehouse
        • SQL version and service pack level
        25th

        SQL Server Central Newsletter

        • Free Encryption
        • International Features in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
        • TSQL Spam-killer
        • Seeing Double
        • Calendar Display with Language Specific Day/Month names
        26th

        Database Weekly

          27th
          28th

          SQL Server Central Newsletter

          • Connection Strategy for Multiple Database Environments
          • How to Handle NULL Values Loaded by SSIS from Excel Files
          • SQL Server 2005 log shipping setup using the wizard
          • Easy or Hard
          • Who did what?
          29th

          SQL Server Central Newsletter

          • Usage of Functions in Stored Procedures
          • Advanced Matrix Reporting Techniques
          • Same Report but Different Methods in SQL Server Reporting Services
          • All Data Readers Are Evil
          • Verify Last successful CHECKDB on all databases
          30th

          SQL Server Central Newsletter

          • SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 21 - Using Replication Management Objects
          • A Function Gotcha with the Use of an Asterisk
          • Custom job categories to organize your SQL Agent jobs
          • Should I Buy a Kindle?
          • Create a Tally or Numbers Table
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