Fine Tuning your Database Design in SQL 2005
Sanchan Saxena gets to grips with the new index-tuning tools and features in SQL 2005
2006-10-17
3,510 reads
Articles
A Guide to Application Memory Tuning
Working with memory in SQL Server and tuning your server for optimum performance gets more complex all the time, especially with the availability of 64-bit platforms. New author Paul Mu brings us a short guide to using the /3GB and PAE switches along with their implications for your server.
2006-10-16
9,030 reads
End to End Training
The training arm of SQLServerCentral.com is spinning off to its own company. This is the place to come for high quality custom training.
2006-10-16
2,333 reads
Design Challenge: Global Address
Are you up to the latest design challenge? A great way to sharpen our analysis and modeling skills is to continuously address real-world scenarios. A modeling scenario with suggested solutions appears each month in this Design Challenge column. The scenario is emailed to more than 1,000 modelers. The responses are then consolidated into this column.
2006-10-16
2,039 reads
How to Schedule a SQL Server Database Creation Script
Scripting out your SQL Server 2000 objects is useful in any number of ways. You can save off the scripts for version control, generate the scripts needed to migrate to new hardware or a new environment, or just package up your application for deployment. Jon Reade brings us a look at the SCPTXFR utility, which can prove very valuable in managing your scripts.
2006-10-13 (first published: 2005-04-14)
38,828 reads
Executing all SSIS packages in a folder: three methods
This article examines a variety of ways in which you can execute all the SSIS packages in a folder.
2006-10-13
1,958 reads
Migrating From DTS to SSIS - Part 1
In this presentation, Brian talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly of DTS migrations. Then, he shows you how to migrate a simple DTS package to SSIS and some of the challenges you will see.
2006-10-13
2,839 reads
SQL Server Spotlight on Ian Jose
We've been profiling quite a few members of the SQL Server development team and this time we get a few minutes with Ian Jose, one of the query processing team.
2006-10-12
3,172 reads
Anticipate the worst when developing SQL Server databases
Arthur Fuller advises DBAs to try to break their software in order to make sure their SQL Server databases can withstand potential attacks. See if your code can hold up to his suggested tests.
2006-10-12
3,499 reads
Writing Simple Select Statements - Part 2
In this second part video from Kathi, she covers how to write T-SQL in much more indepth. She covers how to handle NULLs and many more items in this video.
2006-10-12
2,787 reads
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