Capturing Real-Time Currency Conversions in SSIS
Integration excels at moving and transforming data in real time. Jeff Singleton brings us a great use of SSIS in making currency conversions using a web service.
2010-04-29
9,257 reads
Articles
Configure Windows Firewall for SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services in Windows Server 2008 R2
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 Analysis Services in Windows Firewall for user connectivity.
2010-04-29
2,698 reads
How to Read Excel Cells from SQL Server Integration Services
We can get data in all sorts of formats in the real world. In this new article from Dinesh Asanka, learn how to use scripting to import data from individual Excel cells.
2010-04-28
16,622 reads
Consolidating SQL Server Error Logs from Multiple Instances Using SSIS
SQL Server hides a lot of very useful information in its error log files. Unfortunately, the process of hunting through all these logs, file-by-file, server-by-server, can cause a problem. Rodney Landrum offers a solution which will allow you to pull error log records from multiple servers into a central database, for analysis and reporting with T-SQL.
2010-04-28
2,955 reads
SQL Server Luxembourg User Group Meeting
Our next meeting will be held on Friday 30th April in downtown Luxembourg.
2010-04-27
346 reads
SSIS for Multiple Environments
In this article, Zach Mattson shows us how you can set up SSIS to handle multiple application environments and easily move packages from development to QA to production.
2010-04-27
9,934 reads
SQLCLR function to return free space for all drives on a server
When looking for impending problems due to lack of disk space it's necessary to know how much space is available on each drive. There have been other tips written about how to do this, but in this tip I show you a way this can be done using SQLCLR.
2010-04-27
3,390 reads
Optimising Server-Side Paging - Part I
This article by Paul White presents an optimisation for paging through a wide data set.
2010-04-26
27,833 reads
PASS Virtual Chapters Late April Presentations
To finish up the month of April we’ve got sessions from AppDev and DBA and I’m even including one from PASS on ‘Intro to Speaking At PASS’.
2010-04-26
455 reads
How to Evict a Failed Node and Add it Back to SQL Server 2005 Cluster
Adding and removing nodes in SQL Server Clusters is not so difficult, and instructions on how to do so abound on the internet. However, mismanagement when adding/removing nodes can quickly become a 'gotcha' that wastes time. Bo Chen offers insight into some of those scenarios that are not normally covered in the standard online documents.
2010-04-26
2,048 reads
Blogs
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
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Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
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GenAI vs Dashboards: Not the Same (And Never Will Be)
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Multiple Sequence Values
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