It’s hard to avoid privacy-based stories at the moment, with growing concern over government snooping and the limits of power. But where I’m based, in the UK, there’s a new, fully-privatised invasion of privacy. One marketing company has created an outdoor wi-fi basestation that grabs your phone’s MAC address as you pass, with the idea […]
2013-08-19
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How much of an improvement in processing time can a simple SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) partitioning structure provide? Can you provide any examples? Does this processing time improvement only apply to the fact tables? Check out this tip to learn more.
2013-08-19
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Though the Key/Value pair paradigm is common to almost every computer language, there is no clear agreement yet for the definition of a Key/Value Pair database. However, Key/Value pair databases are valuable for special applications where speed of writing data is more important than searching and general versatility. Buck Woody experiments.
2013-08-16
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This article describes different methods for deploying your SSIS projects to a server.
2013-08-15
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I’ve introduced my manager to SQL Server’s cloud based platform, SQL Azure and Windows Azure Virtual Machine. He wants to test functionality with some of our applications, which would require me to move my on premise databases to the Azure Virtual Machine. What is the easiest way to accomplish this task? See how it is done in this tip.
2013-08-15
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The SQLServerCentral.com survey will end on Wednesday August 21st. Let us know how we're doing and be in with a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Winners will be announced later that week.
2013-08-15
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In this article Greg Larson outlines the exciting new features that come along with SQL Server 2014. He'll also let you know where you can download CTP1, as well as where you can find additional resources related to SQL Server 2014.
2013-08-14
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Specialized tasks like cryptography require external libraries that are not available in SQL Server. Methods for such tasks can be compiled in a .NET language and deployed to SQL Server as a CLR assembly where the assembly's methods can be referenced by SQL Server stored procedures and functions.
2013-08-13
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Join Red Gate for a free seminar on September 20 (the day before SQL Saturday San Diego). SQL Server MVPs, Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey will present informative sessions featuring best practices for SQL Server database administration, in addition to showing Red Gate tools in action.
2013-08-13
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Some SQL problems are intriguing because, just when good methods emerge and are accepted, other alternative solutions are discovered. The fun of exploring problems such as 'Gaps and Islands' is all the greater when we have a thorough test-harness to try out the alternative solutions.
2013-08-13
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By Vinay Thakur
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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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