Five steps to designing event handlers in SSIS
Construct event handlers in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for executables. Get the flexibility of Control Flow and Data Flow tabs in Event Handler.
2008-03-21
3,443 reads
Articles
Get More Out of SQL Server Reporting Services Charts
This white paper presents general information, best practices, and tips for designing charts within Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports. It provides an overview of some Reporting Services features, answers common chart design and feature questions, and includes advanced examples of how to design better charts.
2008-03-21
2,050 reads
The Architecting Magic Behind Taking Mash Ups Offline
While most of the complexity you encounter in synchronization efforts will be unique to your application and infrastructure, synchronization works best when it's designed to be a core feature in each data store.
2008-03-21
1,159 reads
Applying Your Scripts across Multiple SQL Server Databases
This review of RedGate's new SQL Multi Script tool that aids you in deploying a script across multiple databases.
2008-03-20
3,554 reads
ETL for Free-Form Data
This article demonstrates how to extract, transform and load free-form data into a structured form like a staging table by way of XML conversions.
2008-03-20
5,573 reads
Sharing
As humans we look to share with each other, but there are times that this can be a bad thing. Steve Jones has a poll asking you about your sharing habits.
2008-03-20
35 reads
Sharing
As humans we look to share with each other, but there are times that this can be a bad thing. Steve Jones has a poll asking you about your sharing habits.
2008-03-20
29 reads
SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 18 - Merge Web Synchronization Setup
Part 18 of this series explores several scenarios in which the Merge Web Synchronization can be applied and describes their implementation details.
2008-03-20
1,747 reads
Using the CASE expression instead of dynamic SQL
I have a lot of SQL update queries where I need to make IF/ELSE types of decisions. I am using a cursor in some cases but looping through thousands of rows for update takes a long time. I also use some dynamic SQL to handle some query parameter decision making. Is there a better alternative?
2008-03-20
6,666 reads
Conditional Flow in DTS
While SQL Server Integration Services is a huge improvement in the ETL capabilities of SQL Server, there are quite a few environments still using DTS in SQL Server 2000. Wayne Fillis brings us a method for implementing conditional logic in your packages.
2008-03-19 (first published: 2007-06-07)
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
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Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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