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Upgrading SQL Server 2000 DTS Packages to SSIS

If you're like Brian Knight, you probably have dozens if not hundreds of DTS packages running around that you're terrified to touch. SQL Server 2005 has some interesting methods to upgrade your packages to SSIS with minimal effort. This article shows you a few ways that you can use to upgrade and some of the drawbacks.

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2008-05-23 (first published: )

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Database Audit Logs, Joel on Software, Code Handouts, and More

Database systems like Microsoft® SQL Server® have long supported triggers—developer-created scripts that automatically execute after or in place of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements. Because triggers can access the data modified by INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE, they are an excellent tool for recording data changes to an audit log.

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2008-05-23

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Lengthy SQL Server Queries Will Consume Your CPU

The SQL (Structured Query Language) language is a declarative language that became the "Data Language" used for describing "what I need" and "where to fetch it from" in most organizations. OOP (Object Oriented Programming) languages became the most common practice among developers widely adopted by R&D organizations around the world. So how do we bridge the gap?

2008-05-23

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XML Workshop I - Generating XML output using FOR XML with AUTO and RAW

Quickly becoming the SQL Server XML expert, Jacob Sebastion brings us a great new article that expands upon his very popular series on XML in SQL Server. This time he examines the FOR XML PATH option, which provides additional formatting capabilities.

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2008-05-22 (first published: )

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Execution Plan Basics

Every day, out in the various discussion boards devoted to Microsoft SQL Server, the same types of questions come up again and again: Why is this query running slow? Is my index getting used? Why isn't my index getting used? In order to arrive at the answer you have to ask the same return question in each case: have you looked at the execution plan? We are very pleased to be allowed to publish the first chapter of Grant Fritchey's excellent new book on execution plans.

2008-05-22

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SSIS Is Not Just for SQL Server

SQL Server Integration Services is an incredibly rich and complex development environment that can handle almost any data movement task. Even those that do not involve SQL Server. Longtime author Tim Mitchell brings us a use that has nothing to do with SQL Server, but can be very handy for many of us.

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