Talend vs. SSIS: A Simple Performance Comparison
With all of the ETL tools in the marketplace, which one is best? Jeff Singleton brings us simple performance comparison pitting SSIS against open source powerhouse Talend.
2013-10-22
14,638 reads
Articles
Identifying Incompatibility Issues When Migrating SQL Server Database to Windows Azure
In this article, Marcin Policht looks at migrating existing SQL Server databases to Windows Azure, starting with identifying obstacles associated with such migrations.
2013-10-22
3,910 reads
When the reporting team needs an assist...
Collect your data from your servers easily using linked servers.
2013-10-21
4,554 reads
SQL Server Storage Internals 101
This article is an extract from the book Tribal SQL. In this article, Mark S. Rasmussen offers a concise introduction to the physical storage internals behind SQL Server databases. He doesn't dive into every detail, but provides a simple, clear picture of how SQL Server stores data.
2013-10-21
3,767 reads
Slowly Changing Facts
This article describes a design pattern for storing “effective dated" changes to fact tables.
2013-10-18 (first published: 2010-12-22)
20,756 reads
How to hot-add a vCPU to a virtual SQL Server
One of the benefits of running SQL on virtual environment is the capability to present additional vCPUs to the virtual server online and real-time without interruption to running processes. Our VM administrator normally presents only 1 vCPU on the virtual server and extends as required. This article describes how SQL Server is able to detect hot-added vCPUs in my virtual server.
2013-10-18
2,865 reads
SQL Server 2014 CTP 2 is available
Download the latest preview of the the next SQL Server version for testing.
2013-10-18
4,775 reads
Reporting Services Disaster Recovery
Dave Lumley presents a Reporting services disaster recovery solution for SQL Server Standard Edition, using 2 servers. Worth the read if you don't run Enterprise.
2013-10-17 (first published: 2010-04-21)
19,214 reads
Replicating A Volume Of Large Data via Transactional Replication
During weekend maintenance, members of the support team executed an UPDATE statement against the database on the OLTP Server. This database was a part of Transactional Replication, and once the UPDATE statement was executed the Replication procedure came to a halt with an error message. Satnam Singh decided to work on this case and try to find an efficient solution to rebuild the procedure without significant downtime.
2013-10-17
2,886 reads
Error during installation of an SQL server Failover Cluster Instance
A common issue I've run into while helping with SQL Server Failover Cluster (FCI) installations is the failure of the Network Name. In the following post I'll discuss a bit of background, the common root cause, and how to resolve it.
2013-10-16
2,239 reads
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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