Speed or Value?
Everyone wants extreme performance from their systems, but is that always the way to look at things? This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you consider performance in your purchasing decisions.
2008-10-02
61 reads
Articles
Speed or Value?
Everyone wants extreme performance from their systems, but is that always the way to look at things? This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you consider performance in your purchasing decisions.
2008-10-02
74 reads
The Many Benefits of Money…Data Type!
Our initial reason for looking at the money data type can be found within the Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users white paper. In this white paper, we provide extensive examples of the types of precision issues when your SQL relational data source and your Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services cube have different non-matching data types (e.g., if you query one way you get the value 304253.3251, but run the query in another way and you get the value 304253.325100001).
2008-10-02
2,761 reads
XML Workshop XXII - A TSQL RSS Library
RSS feeds are becoming almost required for any type of data publication. SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian brings us the next installment of his XML Workshop series that looks at a series of T-SQL functions to generate the RSS formatted data.
2008-10-01
3,065 reads
Blog: How to Script a Profiler Trace as a SQL Trace Data Collection Set
MVP Brad McGehee shows how you can use Trace data as a source for your data collections for the new Management Data Warehouse
2008-10-01
2,900 reads
How To Use Transactions in a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Package
I am trying to build an SSIS package where the entire package is encapsulated in a transaction. In addition there is a table that needs to remain locked for the duration of the SSIS package execution. Can you provide an example of how to do this?
2008-10-01
4,495 reads
Jumping the Gun
How quickly should security issues be reported? Steve Jones isn't sure, but he talks a bit about what we might want to do.
2008-10-01
73 reads
Jumping the Gun
How quickly should security issues be reported? Steve Jones isn't sure, but he talks a bit about what we might want to do.
2008-10-01
231 reads
Jumping the Gun
How quickly should security issues be reported? Steve Jones isn't sure, but he talks a bit about what we might want to do.
2008-10-01
254 reads
Navigationless Database XML: Hierarchical Data Processing
Although current databases limit XML processing to linear XPath or XQuery queries, existing hierarchical database techniques enable far more complex queries using standard SQL.
2008-10-01
3,542 reads
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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