Denise Rogers discusses the essential tasks in conducting effective software evaluations revolving around data warehousing and business intellegence. Each step has a dependency on the previous one, starting with establishing the framework of the evaluation and adding progressively elaborate data that facilitates a decision making process that is resolute.
2010-06-11
4,369 reads
Marcin Policht examines SQL Server Integration Services' component, Derived Column Transformation,and how its usefulness is enhanced by its ability to implement fairly elaborate mathematical, logical, and string operations.
2010-06-10
2,976 reads
The introduction of the xml data type, with its own set of methods for processing xml data, made it possible for SQL Server developers to create columns and variables of the type xml. Deanna Dicken examines the modify() method, which provides for data manipulation of the XML data stored in the xml data type via XML DML statements.
2010-06-08
3,264 reads
I need to setup other computers the same way that are used to manage my SQL Servers. Instead of having to manually add the registered servers on each computer in this tip I show you how you can import and export registered servers between computers.
2010-06-07
3,141 reads
I have been tasked with auditing security on my SQL Server. However, this needs to be a somewhat automated process as I don't want to have to rely on taking screenshots every month to satisfy our auditors. What tables and/or views should I be using and what's the best way to extract the information out of them?
2010-06-04
4,738 reads
By validating the IO path before commissioning the production database system, and performing ongoing validation through page checksums and DBCC checks, you can hopefully avoid data corruption altogether, or at least nip it in the bud. If corruption occurs, then you have to take the right decisions fast to deal with it. Rod Colledge explains how a pessimistic mindset can be an advantage
2010-06-03
2,506 reads
SQL Server 2005 includes a number of built-in reports to assist you in troubleshooting and measuring performance. In this tip I will cover the Built in SQL Server Performance Reports related to SQL Server Agent within SQL Server 2005.
2010-06-02
5,167 reads
A DBA's huge workload can start to threaten best practices for data backup and recovery, but ingenuity, and an eye for a good tactic, can usually find a way. For Tom, the revelation about a solution came from eating crabs. Statistical sampling can be brought to bear to minimize the risk of failure of an emergency database restore.
2010-06-01
2,557 reads
Proxy accounts are a useful tool to enable teams to work independently allow users who do not have administrative access to SQL Server to run jobs.
2010-05-31
2,735 reads
Windows PowerShell v2 introduces self-contained “modules,” making it easier to share scripts with reusable functions, custom format views or type extensions.
2010-05-28
2,789 reads
By Steve Jones
Redgate recently released SQL Compare v16, which included a new feature to work with...
By Steve Jones
I was listening to the radio the other day and the hosts were discussing...
By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item What is Page Density
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Looking to confirm my understanding of these three products and how they can be...
In SQL Server, there is a concept of page density. This is determined by how much data is stored on each page. What is a page density of 90%?
See possible answers