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2006-06-12
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Articles
Agile Development and ICONIX
Lightweight and adaptable, but with proper emphasis on the design phase, the ICONIX methodology can help you avoid Constant Refactoring After Programming...
2006-06-09
1,977 reads
Further Your Career
Training is an important part of anyone's life in technology, especially if you are a SQL Server DBA or developer. With the release of 2005, the entire paradigm of working with SQL Server has changed and you need to be working on your own personal knowledge base. Steve Jones takes a look at how you can get training and shake the funding loose as well.
2006-06-08
7,020 reads
To SP or not to SP in SQL Server: an argument for stored procedures
A seemingly never-ending battle in online database forums involves the question of whether or not database application development should involve the use of stored procedures.
2006-06-08
2,270 reads
Management Issues - SSAS 2005
For those of you using Analysis Services, Yaniv Mor takes a look at some of the manageablity tools with SQL Server 2005. The way you work with Analysis Services and your cubes has changed dramatically and this is a good overview to get you started.
2006-06-07
6,159 reads
The May SQL Server Standard
Better late than never, here's a look at the May issue of the SQL Server Standard, now available as a PDF.
2006-06-07
4,108 reads
Quickly Viewing Available Space
As everyone moves to SQL Server 2005 from SQL Server 2000, there are quite a few pieces of information that have moved and may give you trouble finding. Boris Balinger brings us a followup to his first look at some of those changes with a quick article on how you can get the free space in your database files.
2006-06-06
9,348 reads
Strategy, Tactics, and Business Intelligence
There is a lot of talk these days about “business intelligence” (BI for short). Pick up any magazine aimed at business or technology professionals, and you’re sure to read about things like data warehouses, dashboards, cubes, ETL, SCD, and a seemingly endless list of other specialized terms and acronyms. One might be left wondering, is this something to which I should be paying attention?
2006-06-06
2,524 reads
XML - Good and Bad
XML is becoming more and more the mainstream for data transfers between systems. Web services and SOAP communications are built into SQL Server 2005, requiring the more and more DBAs understand how to work with XML. Raj Vasant has written a number of articles on XML and brings us a look at how XML should and should not be used.
2006-06-05
9,798 reads
Jacksonville Free HA Event From Microsoft and SQLServerCentral.com
If you're in Jacksonville next week, whether you’re a developer, DBA or manager, you’ll get something out of this all day SQL Server free event. This event is being run with Microsoft and Idea Integration (Brian from SQLServerCentral.com) and will be at a detailed tech level (no marketing). This all-day session is designed to Get You Started with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 High Availability and gotchas when upgrading to 2005. High availability is a hot topic for most enterprise customers. Any application downtime can impact your business, resulting in revenue loss, customer dissatisfaction, and damaging creditability of their business. These 300 Level sessions will be mostly demos! When you leave this, you should know how to mirror a database and cluster. RSVP required.
2006-06-02
789 reads
Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Forums
Purpose of the Rice Purity Test
The main purpose of the Rice Purity Test is entertainment and self reflection. Many...
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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