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This article provides a comprehensive solution to sending email from SQL Express 2008 and Express 2008 R2.  Read more...

SQL Server should work to make it easy for developers to work with it, and include versions like Express in their applications.  Read more...

Recent installments of our SQL Server 2005 Express Edition series have been discussing its implementation of Full Text Indexing. This article focuses on the remaining two constructs, CONTAINS and CONTAINSTABLE.  Read more...

Recent installments of our series dedicated to the most important features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on its Full Text Indexing capabilities. This article covers other full text indexing management methods.  Read more...

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Continuing our discussion, this article covers the remaining tasks necessary to implement a full-text index in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.  Read more...

Having concluded our discussion of Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we now begin an examination of Full Text Indexing and Search.  Read more...

The conclusion of our coverage of the Reporting Services component available in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition discusses systematizing the troubleshooting approach by focusing specifically on performance problems (as opposed to those impacting functionality).  Read more...

Marcin Policht continues his discussion of implementing Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. In this article, we will turn our attention to troubleshooting methods that can be employed to identify and resolve problems affecting reporting functionality and performance.  Read more...

SQL Server Express has the same code base as the rest of the versions of SQL Server, but there are some differences in how to set it up and configure various tasks. MVP Brian Kelley shows us how to enable the Dedicated Administrator Connection.  Read more...

Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have discussed the Reporting Services component. This article provides an overview of sample reports that you can take advantage of in order to familiarize yourself with the more advanced graphical designer features present in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition-based Reporting Services.  Read more...

In the recent installments of our series dedicated to the most prominent features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we have started an overview of its reporting capabilities. This article focuses on elementary methods you can employ to generate custom reports.  Read more...

Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on error handling techniques that leverage Service Broker's transactional nature. This article describes Poison Message detection characteristics and presents an example demonstrating its use.  Read more...

The previous installment of the 'SQL Server 2005 Express Edition' series discussed using transactions to protect the integrity and consistency of Service Broker-based communication. Depending on the type of issue encountered by our code, the outcome might be different from expected. This article demonstrates a more robust approach to error handling and applies it to our target.  Read more...

This article provides an overview and presents an example illustrating the role of transactions in processing Service Broker dialogs usage.   Read more...

Recent installments of our series have discussed configuring Service Broker full dialog level security, which required a mechanism to facilitate the exchange of certificates between communication partners. In this article, we will present an alternative approach, which eliminates this requirement by relying on anonymous dialog security.  Read more...

In the previous installment of our series covering the most relevant features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we started an overview of Service Broker full dialog-level security. In this article, we will conclude this subject by describing the remaining prerequisites and a method to invoke a secure dialog.  Read more...

In my previous article Scheduling Jobs in SQL Server Express we saw how to make simple job scheduling in SQL Server 2005 Express work. We limited the scheduling to one time or daily repeats. Sometimes this isn't enough. In this article we'll take a look at how to make a scheduling solution based on Service Broker worthy of the SQL Server Agent itself.  Read more...

In the recent installments of our "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition" series we have been discussing mechanisms that facilitate authentication of distributed systems participating in Service Broker conversations. This article discusses use of digital certificates in encrypting their content on the transport level.  Read more...