Upgrading your databases link
I got the link from Kirk about the couse: http://www.maxtrain.com/classes/classInfo.aspx?id=SQLADV .
2006-02-02
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Kathi Kellenberger
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Upgrading your databases to SQL Server 2005 class
I attended a two day class this week that was fantastic. It was taught by the author of the course material,...
2006-02-01
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What's new with SSIS?
With the release of SQL Server 2005, there have been many changes in the product, but probably none as dramatic as the changes to the ETL tool. Data Transformation Services has become SQL Server Integration Services, or SSIS. It has been completely redesigned with a whole new paradigm for developing data movements. Kathi Kellenberger brings us a short introduction to this new tool.
2006-01-31
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Pro SSIS is Here!
My box of books arrived today! For me, a first-time author (actually co-author), this is very surreal. I remember it was...
2006-01-25
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Cast vs Convert
Sometimes you must "convert" a column or variable from one data type to another. For example, if you want to...
2006-01-23
1,804 reads
2005-12-29
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Cute comic
My son ran across this comic and was sure I would enjoy it: http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=153
2005-12-23
1,566 reads
Aggregate queries
Be sure to read my article on SQLServerCentral on building aggregate queries: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/kKellenberger/aggregatequeries.asp
2005-12-21
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2005-12-21
1,830 reads
Salary Survey
SQL Server Magazine has just published its annual salary survey. I don’t really recall how they did it in past...
2005-12-17
1,540 reads
Blogs
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Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers