Merge, Metadata and the Data Mart ETL
Here's a great method for managing ETL for data marts and small data warehouses with just T-SQL.
2012-12-27
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Articles
Database Deployment: The Bits - Database Version Drift
When you are about to deploy a new version of a database by updating the current version, one of the essential pre-deployment checks is to make sure that the version in production is exactly what it should be. If changes have somehow slipped in, you'll need to understand them and deal with them before you can deploy.
2012-12-27
2,774 reads
How to create and use Temp tables in SSIS
Creating temp tables in SSIS seems like a straight-forward process using the Execute SQL Task, however there are a couple of properties that must be changed. In this tip, we’ll walk through creating a simple temp table in SSIS.
2012-12-26
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2012-12-25
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SQLServerCentral Best Practices Clinic: Part 1
We exposed the SQLServerCentral cluster for monitoring with SQL Monitor. Just like other companies, we have constraints on resources, and we have more work that needs to be done. Help us configure SQLServerCentral’s database servers with your suggestions on what is the highest priority for a website database back end.
2012-12-25 (first published: 2011-03-07)
22,863 reads
Free ebook: Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA
Merry Christmas from SQLServerCentral. We spend much of our working life helping solve SQL Server-related performance problems, hands-on, during consulting, or on online forums. We've seen a few weird-and-wonderful issues but, mainly, it’s the same problems and misconceptions time-and-again. This is our attempt to describe, diagnose, and solve the most common problems with SQL Server 2005, 2008, and 2008 R2. And it's free.
2012-12-25 (first published: 2012-10-30)
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Can a Table Really Have a Clustered Index?
A table doesn't so much "have" a clustered index as a table "is" a clustered index.
2012-12-24
8,376 reads
Making the Case for a SQL Server Platform Refresh
With the release of Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2012, and the new generation of Sandy Bridge Xeon processors, your organization is likely to get many tangible benefits from upgrading your current database infrastructure with a complete platform refresh.
2012-12-24
2,579 reads
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Tester and Other Festive Arrangements
A Christmas poem and a contest from Simple Talk.
2012-12-24
2,442 reads
Some tips for working with big data models
The main goal of this article is to present some tips to help professionals that need to work with complex, big, and hard to understand database models that anyone may came across some day.
2012-12-21 (first published: 2011-03-03)
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
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In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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