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
11,415 reads
Articles
Configure Windows Firewall for SQL Server 2008 Integration Services in Windows Server 2008 R2
I have installed SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 R2 and I am unable to connect to SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Instance from SQL Server 2008 Management Studio which is installed on another remote server. As I am new to Windows Server 2008 R2 it would be great if you can let me know the step by step approach to enable the default port of SQL Server 2008 Integration Services in Windows Firewall for user connectivity.
2010-06-21
3,201 reads
2010-06-18 (first published: 2008-12-24)
37,417 reads
Sorting data in the SSIS Pipeline (Video)
In this post I want to show a couple of ways to order the data that comes into the pipeline. a number of people have asked me about this primarily because there are a number of ways to do it but also because some components in the pipeline take sorted inputs. One of the methods I show is visually easy to understand and the other is less visual but potentially more performant.
2010-06-18
15,661 reads
Concurrent processing in SSIS – Part 1
In the beginning of a new series, Elliott Whitlow shows us how to process your data movement in parallel, covering six different methods for doing so.
2010-06-17
13,020 reads
Writing a Data Access Layer (DAL) for SQL Server
In this tip, I am going to show you how you can create a Data Access Layer (to store, retrieve and manage data in relational database) in ADO .NET. I will show how you can make it data provider independent, so that you don't have to re-write your data access layer if the data storage source changes and also you can reuse it in other applications that you develop.
2010-06-17
5,532 reads
SQL Server Service Broker Components - Message Types, Contracts and Queue
Arshad Ali discusses the Initiator, Target, Message Types, Contract and Queue--all components of SQL Server Service Broker (SSBS).
2010-06-16
2,275 reads
Paging and Versioning Using ROW_NUMBER()
Paging through results of data, or finding specific sets of data is something that most of us need to do. A new article from Lawrence Moore shows us how we can do this with ROW_NUMBER()
2010-06-15
15,746 reads
Introduction to Master Data Services in SQL Server 2008
There are numerous databases housing the same information and it's getting quite difficult to keep everything in line. I've heard from a number of departments who want a more centralized approach to handling customer data, but I don't know where to begin. Can you steer me in the right direction?
2010-06-15
4,680 reads
TSQL Challenge 32 - Clean up phrases by removing noise words
The idea of this challenge is to clean up the phrase from the words identified as 'noise' words from the beginning and end of sentences.
2010-06-14
2,691 reads
Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
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Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
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