You have all read about why object qualification is important. You also must have heard of why stored Proc should not have sp_ as prefix to the name. Now let us proove if this is all true.  Read more...

The Trash Destination is now available for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The Trash Destination and this article came from early experiences of using SSIS and community feedback at the time. When developing a package it is very useful to have a destination adapter that does nothing but consume rows with no setup requirement.  Read more...

Although a few different options (Management Studio, system stored procedures, system views, custom scripts, etc.) exist to determine your permissions in SQL Server, in this tip we want to outline the functionality from the fn_my_permissions table valued function.   Read more...

The next European PASS Conference will take place between the 14th - 16th of April 2008 in Neuss, Germany!  Read more...

This article from MSDN discusses the benefits of TDD and bringing unit testing to your database development.  Read more...

This article demonstrates the negative affect that linked servers can cause in queries and offers alternatives to speed up performance.  Read more...

This article discusses why VBScript should be one of the tools you use to manage your server. Sample scripts show how to remove files over x days old and how to FTP files.   Read more...

This article describes how to take advantage of SQL CLR table-valued functions to combine different types of data sources to create rich and exciting SQL Server Reporting Services reports.  Read more...

This is the eighth article in a continuing series, and this installment discusses the Data Steward Coordinator.  Read more...

David Poole is a regular author at SQLServerCentral.com, sharing many of his knowledge and experiences with us over the years. This time he examines some of the issues that you might have with replication.  Read more...

Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his subseries surrounding components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In the second half of this article, we extend our focus on dimensions to include property settings for Cube Dimensions.  Read more...

This next post from MVP Simon Sabin examines one of the major improvements in performance of search.  Read more...

Expressions can be used to dynamically build an output file. Here we will show you another way to do this using the script task.  Read more...

Optimize SQL Server non-clustered indexes and queries by considering index fields, compound indexes and SQL Server statistics' impact on non-clustered indexes.  Read more...

This tip shows you how you can apply the cross-validation feature in the upcoming SQL Server 2008 release to estimate if the training set size is sufficient for a given model.  Read more...

This article explains how to import text files using SSIS in those cases where the text files have different formatted data on different rows. The solution recommended involves minimal coding and is highly maintainable.   Read more...

Marcin Policht provides a step-through sample implementation of transactional and merge replication.  Read more...

This article will show how you can produce a return regardless of variables passed and debugging tool for @SQL String.  Read more...

In this article Dinesh Asanka demonstrates how you can use your own data sources in SQL Server Integration Services.  Read more...

MVP Simon Sabin continues his in depth look at Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008. This time he examines how you can load Thesaurus files.  Read more...

Learn about SQL Server memory needs and settings including RAM amounts, how to enable AWE, maximum server memory and the differences of 32- and 64-bit platforms.  Read more...

Using a macro to query the INFORMATION_SCHEMA  Read more...

In this tip we look at the process of installing Reporting Services on a server that is already running Database Services.  Read more...

Coming in May is a free one day event in Jacksonville, FL.  Read more...