The previous installment of "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition" discussed Service Broker's internal activation, which allows you to automate communication between initiator and target. Unfortunately, there are some caveats related to its security context. This article describes their specifics and provides a couple of methods to eliminate any undesirable side effects they introduce.
2009-02-19
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When reviewing an issue through the Replication Monitor, the error messaging was leaving me wanting more detail to find out why the replication process was failing. So my question is, is there a way to garner more information from the replication agents running via SQL Server Agent?
2009-02-18
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This article is part 2 of a 4 part series that explores the internals of SQL Server Integration Services. This article looks at SSIS Transformations and Execution Trees.
2009-02-18
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Dynamic management views measure the effectiveness of indexes and discover fragmented indexes that may slow down SQL Server.
2009-02-18
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SQL Server's new FILESTREAM feature simplifies the process of keeping file-based data, such as images, in sync with relational data.
2009-02-17
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This article shows the new features that are available in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
2009-02-17
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SQL Server login monitoring and access control are important elements of SQL database security. Learn how DDL triggers can help alert you to security issues.
2009-02-16
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I have heard that the installation process for SQL Server 2008 differs from previous installation processes. So, how much different is the installation process? In this three-part tip series, we will review the installation process for SQL Server 2008, which differs quite a bit from SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 installations.
2009-02-16
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This month's installment of "MDX Essentials" examines the HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME intrinsic member property. Join SSAS Architect Bill Pearson in an introduction of this intrinsic member property, which Bill complements with hands-on exercises and sample uses.
2009-02-13
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This article is part 1 of a 4 part series that explores the internals of SQL Server Integration Services. This series will focus on the SSIS architecture, buffer management, types of transformation, the execution tree and parallel processing.
2009-02-13
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Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
By Steve Jones
I wrote earlier this week about the SQL MCP Server using the Data API...
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