2012-01-12 (first published: 2010-07-07)
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2012-01-12 (first published: 2010-07-07)
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We decided to ask various well-known SQL Server people to write about their favorite SQL Server Howlers. These are those common misunderstandings about how SQL Server works that end in tears, and plaintive forum questions. Grant Fritchey opens the series with some of those howlers that stick in the mind.
2012-01-12
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The Business Intelligence Semantic Model is one of the most significant enhancements in SQL Server 2012. BISM allows aspects of the traditional multidimensional model to coexist with the relational model in a format called the tabular model and can be used with all client tools in the Microsoft BI stack.
2012-01-11
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This SSIS package reads the first line of a CSV file to obtain field names, then creates a table based on those field names and loads the remaining lines into the table.
2012-01-10
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Leibniz breaks out of a buyer's dilemma that might defeat a subtler mind.
2012-01-10 (first published: 2010-06-30)
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Rob Sullivan is one of the users who are helping shape the way that SQL Test develops, and here he explains what is going on, and why.
2012-01-10
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This article describes how to use the built in repository for SQL Server Management Studio Templates and how to customize and share a common repository with your team.
2012-01-09
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Bad data always seems to appear when, and where, one least expects it. Sam explains the great value of a defensive approach based on constraints to any team that is developing an application in which the data has to be exactly right, and where bad data could cause consequential severe financial damage. It is perhaps better seen as creating a test-driven database.
2012-01-09
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The challenge is to wrap the text by specified position.
2012-01-09
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The first of a two-part series of articles examining the APPLY operator. Learn the basics of how this operator works and how it can help you solve some tricky problems.
2012-01-06 (first published: 2010-04-12)
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By Steve Jones
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