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Setting Up Email Notification for SSIS Package Failure

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Integration Services (SSIS)

As a DBA, we often setup monitoring to receive job failure notification, but when it comes to SSIS packages, we either do not capture the job failure (if the job runs through the command prompt) or we have no idea why it failed. In this article, I'd like to walk you through how to enable the logging functionality for SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and how to capture detailed information for immediate troubleshooting without "re-run" the package.

2012-01-18

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Window Functions in SQL Server: Part 3: Questions of Performance

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window functions

A SQL expression may look elegant on the page but it is only valuable if its performance is good. Do window functions run quicker than their conventional equivalent code? Fabiano Amorim gives a definitive answer.

2012-01-17

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Grant Truncate Table Permissions in SQL Server without ALTER Table

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Truncate Table

How do you grant a SQL Server developer truncate table permission without giving them the ability to alter the table? Check out the examples and explanation in this tip.

2012-01-16

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SQL Server Log Shipping to a Different Domain or Workgroup

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Log Shipping

Sometimes the requirement arises to provide a copy of your database to an off-site location, such as a disaster recovery datacenter. Log Shipping is one of the most popular, proven technologies used to create a copy of your databases on a remote server.

2012-01-13

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Grant Fritchey's SQL Server Howlers

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Grant Fritchey

We decided to ask various well-known SQL Server people to write about their favorite SQL Server Howlers. These are those common misunderstandings about how SQL Server works that end in tears, and plaintive forum questions. Grant Fritchey opens the series with some of those howlers that stick in the mind.

2012-01-12

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Getting Started with Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) in SQL Server 2012

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SQL Server 2012

The Business Intelligence Semantic Model is one of the most significant enhancements in SQL Server 2012. BISM allows aspects of the traditional multidimensional model to coexist with the relational model in a format called the tabular model and can be used with all client tools in the Microsoft BI stack.

2012-01-11

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SQL Test: Seeing Red Change to Green

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SQL Test

Rob Sullivan is one of the users who are helping shape the way that SQL Test develops, and here he explains what is going on, and why.

2012-01-10

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Constraints and the Test-Driven Database

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Database Design

Bad data always seems to appear when, and where, one least expects it. Sam explains the great value of a defensive approach based on constraints to any team that is developing an application in which the data has to be exactly right, and where bad data could cause consequential severe financial damage. It is perhaps better seen as creating a test-driven database.

2012-01-09

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T-SQL Development, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Word

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T-SQL

Microsoft Office Word is useful. There, I have confessed it, it's useful to me while I am working with TSQL. It's possibly only the search and replace function that I like but it's wrapped in Word so I have to take it like that. I use it a lot to help me capture the results of a stored procedure.

2012-01-06

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Using bit columns with NULLs when three options exist in SQL Server

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Bit Columns

Frequently surveys ask yes/no questions and use a bit datatype. What are the effects of allowing this column to be NULL in a SQL Server table? Check out this tip to learn more.

2012-01-05

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Additional Articles

Setting Up Email Notification for SSIS Package Failure

Window Functions in SQL Server: Part 3: Questions of Performance

Grant Truncate Table Permissions in SQL Server without ALTER Table

SQL Server Log Shipping to a Different Domain or Workgroup

Grant Fritchey's SQL Server Howlers

Getting Started with Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) in SQL Server 2012

SQL Test: Seeing Red Change to Green

Constraints and the Test-Driven Database

T-SQL Development, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Word

Using bit columns with NULLs when three options exist in SQL Server

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