Concurrent processing in SSIS – Part 2
The second part of a series that looks at two additional techniques for processing data in parallel in Integration Services.
2010-06-24
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Articles
I’m a SQL Server DBA, and I’m in Love with PowerShell
To learn PowerShell, Laerte Junior suggests that you just start using it. To encourage you to start, he provides a series of tips on using PowerShell with SQL Server to solve various everyday problems. With a little patience, a good IDE, and a bit of help and advice, "the lion is dead".
2010-06-24
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2010-06-23 (first published: 2008-12-24)
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Late June 2010 PASS VC Presentations
PASS BI and DBA Virtual Chapters have free training available on Wednesday June 23rd.
2010-06-23
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Using the UPTIME Utility to Monitor Servers
Learn how to use a free utility to quickly monitor the uptime of your SQL Server instances.
2010-06-23
8,392 reads
Voting opens for Exceptional DBA of 2010
The voting for the 2010 Exceptional DBA opens today, and you can read about the finalists and prizes inside.
2010-06-23
668 reads
Making your SQL Server database changes backward compatible: Adding a new column
As multi-tier architectures grow over time, it is often challenging to coordinate those changes across the data, logic and presentation tiers. Unless planned and implemented carefully, an act as simple as adding a column to a table can grind all of the components of your application to a halt. While some of us have comfortable 12-hour maintenance windows every weekend, many of us are bound by service level agreements that are much more strict. So we must find ways to introduce fixes and new features with zero downtime, and without requiring every single component to be refactored at the same time.
2010-06-23
3,366 reads
Expert Systems – an SSRS Approach
An interesting approach to solving a complicated problem using SSRS. Users have too much documentation to read about a process, so Jonathan Spink introduces a better way to do things.
2010-06-22
7,497 reads
Creating XML in SQL Server
XML has become a common form of representing and exchanging data in today's information age. SQL Server introduced XML-centric capabilities in SQL Server 2000. That functionality has been expanded in later releases. One aspect of working with XML is creating XML from relational data, which is accomplished utilizing the FOR XML clause in SQL Server.
2010-06-22
4,464 reads
Using Certificates to Sign Stored Procedures
How to sign stored procedures with certificates, this is useful if the procedures use dynamic SQL.
2010-06-21
11,319 reads
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