SQL Server Spotlight on John Gallardo
After he worked on the XML features of SQL Server 2005, he has moved on to Reporting Services. John Gallardo is an interesting person with a variety of thoughts on XML and more.
2006-08-03
3,699 reads
Articles
Committing imports in SQL Server a little at a time
A colleague working on an Informix database needed to search TEXT columns using wildcards. While Informix supports wildcards in LIKE and MATCH predicates, this support does not include TEXT columns. The obvious solution—to export the data to SQL Server—does support such searches.
2006-08-03
2,271 reads
Creating a generic audit trigger with SQL 2005 CLR
Auditing is becoming more important all the time for DBAs as regulations and requirements increase. Building auditing into your systems can be done a number of ways, but with SQL Server 2005, you have a new option. New author David Ziffer brings us a generic auditing CLR trigger.
2006-08-02
19,072 reads
Introduction to Data Warehousing Part 2 - DW Tables
In Part 2 of this series, Wes Dumey talks about some of the key tables in a data warehousing scenario. He covers fact tables, dimensions and some of the other tables you'll see in a data warehouse. Free registration required.
2006-08-02
2,444 reads
ConnectionStringBuilders in .NET 2.0
As a DBA you might not need to build connection strings for your servers very often, but developers certainly need to build these all the time and might contact you for help. Author Raj Vasant takes a look at the new capabilities of .NET 2.0, which can really help make this easier.
2006-08-01
9,410 reads
Using the SSIS Fuzzy Lookup Transform
In this video, you'll see how to use the SQL Server Integration Services Fuzzy Lookup Transform to match data that may've been mistyped. Use this transform to stop data duplication.
2006-08-01
2,114 reads
Migrating Data Warehouse Systems to SQL Server 2005
Continuing with his fantastic series on data warehousing. Vincent Rainardi brings us the next installment, which takes a look at upgrading the various components of your data warehousing system.
2006-07-31
16,278 reads
Introduction to Data Warehousing Part 1
In Part 1 of this extensive series, Wes Dumey starts some of the core concepts of data warehousing. In this video he covers what a data warehouse is, why companies use them and what are some of the key components.
2006-07-31
2,785 reads
Connecting With Perl Using Win32 : ODBC
Perl has been a popular language for Unix administrators for years. It is flexible, easy to learn, and capable of doing some very powerful things with relatively few lines of code. In this article by Brian Kelly, he shows you how to connect to SQL Server via Perl.
2006-07-28 (first published: 2002-12-03)
42,266 reads
Introduction to Data Warehousing
In this video series, Wes Dumey shows you some of the core basics of data warehousing. Free registration required.
2006-07-28
2,329 reads
Blogs
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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