Loading EBCDIC data into SQL Server is not a well documented process - this article provides a very useful guide to optimizing the performance of this operation.
2009-11-05
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2009-11-04 (first published: 2009-10-16)
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A step by step example of how to add pre-calculated closing balances through T-SQL and semi-additive measures from Johan Åhlén.
2009-11-04
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It is pretty important to make sure you set the Max Server memory setting for SQL Server 2005/2008 to something...
2009-11-04
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Query performance can be affected by many different factors. This article introduces another best practice of how and how not to use a function within your T-SQL statements.
2009-11-04
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Of all of the reader email I get, just these two things alone reminded me that of course I don't know everything, and many of you are working at a widening level of experience. To that end, this article is an old school article that shows new-to-WinForms programmers how to read data from controls and contrive SQL that updates a database.
2009-11-04
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This, the first in a series of three articles, describes the history of information workers and discusses their characteristics. The next article will describe how to leverage the latest BI technologies, and the final article will address how to improve information consumability.
2009-11-03
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This tip is going to cover recommendations related to the SQL Server Destination Adapter, asynchronous transformations, DefaultBufferMaxSize and DefaultBufferMaxRows, BufferTempStoragePath and BLOBTempStoragePath as well as the DelayValidation property.
2009-11-03
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For those of you still using SQL Server 2000, learn how to use SQL-DMO to create DML scripts to deploy new records or data changes to other servers. From Oscar Garcia.
2009-11-02
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In the first installment of this discussion, I talked about the challenges facing database professionals and others with respect to...
2009-11-02
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By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
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