SQL Saturday
The SQL Server community has a new event to attend in local markets. The Orlando Users Group put on SQL Saturday recently and here's a short look at how this event came about, and how you might run your own event.
2007-11-21
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Articles
SSW Tech Breakfast - SharePoint (MOSS)
If you are near Sydney, Australia, Marten Ataalla will provide an introduction to Microsoft SharePoint 2007 with the aim of evaluating its effectiveness for Enterprise Content Management (ECM).
2007-11-21
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XML Workshop XI - Default Namespaces
The eleventh installment of the XML Workshop continues looking at namespaces. This time Jacob Sebastian examines default namespaces and how they impact your XML processing.
2007-11-21
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Featured Blog: CHECKDB From Every Angle: Can CHECKDB repair everything?
What can't be fixed by CHECKDB? Read this great entry from the former SQL Server Storage Engine lead.
2007-11-21
2,282 reads
Beginning Database Design - Spot the Flaws
A new series by Steve Jones that tackles a basic design of a few tables. Read the scenario, look over this design, and see if you can find the problems.
2007-11-20
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.NET Building Blocks: Build a Configurable Database Credential Selector
This handy control gives you everything you need to control how users input usernames, passwords, select servers, and choose connection types.
2007-11-20
4,108 reads
Enterprise Architecture: Connect-Dots for Adults, Part 2
This article, the second in a series, discusses what items could be contained in the enterprise architecture and touches briefly on how to organize the objects.
2007-11-20
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Monitoring on a Budget
Have you ever been asked for information you couldn't provide because you didn't have an historical monitoring tool? Try this
2007-11-19
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Declarative Management Framework - Performing Policy Management
The Declarative Management Framework is a new policy based management framework included with the upcoming SQL Server 2008. Using this feature administrators can define policies to govern their SQL Server environments much like in the Windows environment. This article, written based on the SQL Server "Katmai" July CTP introduces you to the DMF and shows you how you can perform policy management.
2007-11-19
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Importing Text-based data: Workbench
Robyn and Phil return with some fresh ideas about how to import text files into SQL Server, without resorting to DTS or SSIS scripting. They go on to show how much can be done in TSQL
2007-11-19
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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