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Employee Retention

A SQL Server DBA seems to be a stable job and many of us stick with the same job for an above average length of time. However employee retention in general is important to a strong and healthy company. Steve Jones starts a new series looking at this topic and why an employer might want to worry about retention.

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2005-07-27

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SOA, Multi-Tier Architectures and Logic in the Database

Programmers, webmasters, Web services developers and database administrators (DBAs) are not strangers to the "Can we have it tomorrow?" request. That's why software and web developers have embraced a continuous stream of silver bullet technologies that promised to accelerate development. The developer community has experienced "web time", object-oriented programming (OOP), rapid application development (RAD), "extreme programming" and "agile development". Accelerated development schedules put a premium on understanding architecture and knowing how to match the tools to the job. That means understanding today's model of applications as services and what role a database can play. If you understand SQL technology, for example, you can adapt databases to application and service requirements by embedding logic in a database.

2005-07-27

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Review Armtech for SQL Server

How many times have you wished you could throttle the CPU use of SQL Server? Or for a database? Prevent your developers from using too many resources while sharing the server with production or QA. ArmTech for Windows can do this and Dinsesh Asanka brings us a review of how this product worked in his environment.

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2005-07-26

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Portable DTS Packages

Moving DTS Packages from one SQL Server 2000 server to another can be a real hassle. There are any number of issues that occur whenever you seek to use a package on different servers. New author Jonathan Stokes brings us a technique he's used many times to build portable DTS packages.

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2005-07-25

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Easy Auditing a Shared Account

Despite the major advances made with Profiler in SQL Server 2005, auditing changes isn't one of the strengths of the product. New author Sergey Pustovit brings us his technique that allows auditing of actions using shared accounts from an application. A few minor code changes, but overall this is a very interesting idea.

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2005-07-20

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