Some managers love to look solely at numbers when assessing performance, and key performance indicators (KPIs) are right up their street. But how useful are they in the context of software development
2007-10-12
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Most DBAs don't ever deal with multiple languages or different collation and sort order settings in SQL Server, but it can be a handy piece of information to have. Steve Jones brings us a quick look at a problem in comparing data across databases.
2007-10-11
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2007-10-11
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Green is the hot topic these days, and the concept is having an impact on the way people think about datacenters. Companies around the world are announcing ways to save energy and reduce
2007-10-11
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Deadlocks do not occur too often, but when they do, it can be a time consuming and frustrating endeavor to track them down. In SQL Server 2000, you could alter the message to ensure these were written to the error log and track them down quickly. In SQL Server 2005, it is a little more tricky, but new author Patrick Leblanc brings us a technique for sending out a notification.
2007-10-10
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Backpressure is an interesting internal memory limiter inside SSIS and in SQL Server 2008 you get to see when the limiter kicks in.
2007-10-10
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In this article, we will continue exploring other post-setup tasks, focusing on network specific tasks.
2007-10-10
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Many of us still have SQL Server 2000 DTS packages running throughout our environment. New author Owais Bashir Ahmed brings us an interesting technique for moving those packages between servers that might come in handy as you continue to work on these packages in SQL Server 2000.
2007-10-09
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2007-10-09
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The Multicast transform in SSIS 2005 enables us to take 1 input dataset and from it generate n output datasets that are an exact copy of the input dataset which is extremely useful at times and we have used it on a number of projects.
2007-10-09
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