Tapas Pal shows you how to encrypt your SQL Server database for a pre-existing, business critical web application using Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), a new full database encryption technique introduced in SQL Server 2008.
2010-06-14
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This article is the beginner's guide to Default Trace. The article outlines how to query the default trace for key trace events, with a focus on DDL history.
2010-06-11 (first published: 2008-11-11)
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Denise Rogers discusses the essential tasks in conducting effective software evaluations revolving around data warehousing and business intellegence. Each step has a dependency on the previous one, starting with establishing the framework of the evaluation and adding progressively elaborate data that facilitates a decision making process that is resolute.
2010-06-11
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Learn how you can generate a server inventory in 30 minutes for all of your servers with this new article from Stanley Chan.
2010-06-10
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Steve Jones talks about the PASS Board of Directors election coming up this fall and hopes some of you will apply.
2010-06-10
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Marcin Policht examines SQL Server Integration Services' component, Derived Column Transformation,and how its usefulness is enhanced by its ability to implement fairly elaborate mathematical, logical, and string operations.
2010-06-10
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2010-06-09
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Speeding up incremental ETL processes in SSIS by tracking changes to records in an MD5 Hash
2010-06-08
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The introduction of the xml data type, with its own set of methods for processing xml data, made it possible for SQL Server developers to create columns and variables of the type xml. Deanna Dicken examines the modify() method, which provides for data manipulation of the XML data stored in the xml data type via XML DML statements.
2010-06-08
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A look at partitioning in Analysis Services from Shahfaisal Muhammed. Learn how it works, what it can do, and how to implement partitions for your cubes.
2010-06-07
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By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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