The Release Schedule
Coordinating the release of software among all the groups involved can be quite a chore. Steve Jones comments on some of the challenges.
2008-09-17
61 reads
Articles
Adding a timestamp to files in SSIS - SQL School Video
Integration Services is the ETL platform for SQL Server. In this installment of SQL School, Brian Knight shows how to add a timestamp (current date) to the name of a file.
2008-09-16
4,479 reads
Databases for Change
Meaningful change often requires information collection, processing, retrieval and distribution. As database professionals, that's our bag. So what can we do to help things along?
2008-09-16
66 reads
Databases for Change
Meaningful change often requires information collection, processing, retrieval and distribution. As database professionals, that's our bag. So what can we do to help things along?
2008-09-16
72 reads
Databases for Change
Meaningful change often requires information collection, processing, retrieval and distribution. As database professionals, that's our bag. So what can we do to help things along?
2008-09-16
75 reads
Moving Indexes
Working with filegroups and managing the location of your various objects can be a cumbersome task in SQL Server. New author Thom Bolin brings us a technique and some code that worked well for one of his clients.
2008-09-15
6,236 reads
How To Collect Performance Data With TYPEPERF.EXE
One of the things I typically need to do is to collect performance data on the server which includes CPU, memory and disk utilization as well as SQL Server-specific data. What command line tools are available to do this?
2008-09-15
4,384 reads
Murphy’s Laws of Data Warehousing: What Goes Bump in the Night?
Murphy’s Law tells us that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. This axiom applies to all aspects of life, including data warehousing. The following corollaries to Murphy’s Law relate this inevitability of something going “bump” in the night to data warehousing.
2008-09-15
3,411 reads
The Broken Window
A new data mining thrilled from Jeffrey Deaver has Steve Jones concerned about the centralization of data mining.
2008-09-15
68 reads
The Broken Window
A new data mining thrilled from Jeffrey Deaver has Steve Jones concerned about the centralization of data mining.
2008-09-15
82 reads
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Vector Datatype
The new Vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 is a binary type that has a few parameters. What parameters are required?
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