A Little DOS for a Poor DBA
Yakov Shlafman brings back the world of the command prompt to make life easier for a DBA that must deploy a series of scripts to their servers.
2008-11-06
12,906 reads
Articles
Using Data Viewers - SQL School Video
Integration Services is a great system for performing ETL operations between databases. In this video we show how you can use Data Viewers to determine if you are correctly transforming data.
2008-11-06
2,084 reads
Creative SPAM
SPAM permeates all aspects of our lives. Steve Jones takes a poll today about which messages might have caught your eye.
2008-11-06
574 reads
Creative SPAM
SPAM permeates all aspects of our lives. Steve Jones takes a poll today about which messages might have caught your eye.
2008-11-06
539 reads
Creative SPAM
SPAM permeates all aspects of our lives. Steve Jones takes a poll today about which messages might have caught your eye.
2008-11-06
776 reads
Exploring SQL 2005’s Ranking Functions – NTILE() and ROW_NUMBER()
Part 20 of the "SqlCredit – Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" examines SQL 2005’s NTILE() and ROW_NUMBER() Ranking Functions.
2008-11-06
4,328 reads
Operations Manager: A Big Tinker Set
To illustrate the great possibilities of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, Thomas shows how to create a Custom Monitor for SQL Agent Jobs, and concludes that Operations Manager is nothing more than a big tinker set.
2008-11-06
2,392 reads
Build Great Looking Excel Spreadsheets
Exporting data from your database and building reports is easy with Reporting Services, but sometimes you need to use other sources
2008-11-05
18,194 reads
SQL Server User Group in Luxembourg
A new SQL Server user group is starting up in Luxembourg. Be sure you read this if you are in the area and want to participate.
2008-11-05
377 reads
SQL Server Schema Binding and Indexed Views
How do you handle this error? "Cannot create index on view, because the view is not schema bound".
2008-11-05
3,263 reads
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Checking the Error Log II
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