Identifying Unused Objects in a Database
Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich answers one of the most common questions seen in discussion areas around the world: how do you identify unused objects?
2006-09-11
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Articles
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Message Queue Task - Part 32
After concluding a broad overview of various aspects of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, part 32 of this series focuses on individual components that have more specialized, but very useful characteristics, starting by discussing the Message Queue Control Flow task, and following with coverage of a number of Data Flow transformations.
2006-09-11
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Detroit Area SQL Server User Group
The next meeting of the Detroit Area SQL Server User Group is September 14th.
2006-09-08
1,657 reads
Learning SQL Server 2005
Everyone wants to get ahead of the curve with SQL Server 2005, but many people don't have the time or desire to dig through a Google search. Steve Jones has gotten quite a few requests for resources, so here is a compiled list of some places that might help you get started.
2006-09-08 (first published: 2005-04-21)
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Copying Database Backups to an Alternative Location
Learn how to use ALERTs, a SQL Agent job and a stored procedure (SP) to create a copy of your critical database backups on another physical machine as soon as the database backups are created.
2006-09-08
4,926 reads
Windows Utilities for the SQL Server DBA
This article is a short summary of Windows utilities both GUI and command line intended for new SQL Server DBAs or those interested in learning some useful techniques.
2006-09-07
18,502 reads
SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions
A CTE is a "temporary result set" that exists only within the scope of a single SQL statement. It allows access to functionality within that single SQL statement that was previously only available through use of functions, temp tables, cursors, and so on.
2006-09-07
2,652 reads
Controlling Jobs
Have you ever needed to build a job that could run within a certain period of time? Those long maintenance operations, like index rebuilds, need to fit within certain windows of time. New author Joe Doherty brings us a great technique for ensuring those jobs do not run over into your business day and impact normal operations.
2006-09-06
8,391 reads
Reporting Services 2005 101 with a Smart Client
Are you interested in a raise? Asif Sayed got one from a well written report. This time he brings us a beginners' looks at Reporting Services 2005 using a smart client for testing.
2006-09-05
11,600 reads
Improving Data Security by Using SQL Server 2005
Microsoft IT developed strategies to reduce the duplication of sensitive data and improve the security of personally identifiable information in the Microsoft IT LOB application space. These strategies are based on the new security features and functionalities that Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 includes.
2006-09-05
2,039 reads
Blogs
Microsoft Fabric Data Agents: Bringing Structured and Unstructured Data Together
By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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