Slicing and Dicing
There can be a lot more value when pieces of data are put together than when they exist separately. Steve Jones comments on a few ways people are repackaging information in the modern world.
2009-08-12
70 reads
Articles
Where is my app.config for SSIS?
Sometimes when working with SSIS you need to add or change settings in the .NET application configuration file, which can be a bit confusing when you are building a SSIS package not an application. First of all lets review a couple of examples where you may need to do this.
2009-08-12
3,085 reads
Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with C# 2008
Read a sample chapter from this new book about C# and LINQ from Murach.
2009-08-11
2,329 reads
Post Snapshot Script - SQL School Video
The post snapshot script in replication allows you to make changes to the subscriber after you complete a snapshot. Unaware of this feature? Watch this episode of SQL School.
2009-08-11
11,718 reads
24 Hours of PASS
Rick Heiges has put together an interesting event coming up on Sep 2, 2009 called 24 Hours of PASS. As...
2009-08-11
943 reads
Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices
The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 helps compress the data inside a database, and it can help reduce the size of the database. Apart from the space savings, data compression provides another benefit: Because compressed data is stored in fewer pages, queries need to read fewer pages from the disk, thereby improving the performance of I/O intensive workloads. However, extra CPU resources are required on the database server to compress and decompress the data, while data is exchanged with the application. Therefore, it is important to understand the workload characteristics when deciding which tables to compress.
2009-08-11
2,717 reads
Using INSTEAD OF triggers in SQL Server for DML operations
In SQL Server 2000 and onwards there are INSTEAD OF triggers that can be used to carry out such tasks. Although these types of triggers can be used in a number of scenarios their primary function is to perform DML operations through such views. This tip shows how to use INSTEAD OF triggers to handle these DML operations on views.
2009-08-11
3,382 reads
Database Documentation Using Red Gate's SQLDoc
Longtime author David Poole has written an excellent article about using SQLDoc, from Red Gate Software. Learn how you can document your own databases in this sponsored article.
2009-08-10
3,579 reads
2009-08-10
187 reads
Twenty tips to write a good stored procedure
This article will provide some useful information to write a SP. I have emphasized on performance.
2009-08-10
53,645 reads
Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers