In a previous tip on Disaster Recovery Procedures in SQL Server 2005 Part 1, we have seen how we can come up with a disaster recovery procedure in SQL Server 2005. There are other ways to increase availability of your highly critical database in SQL Server 2005. What are those other options?
2008-12-31
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Today many companies determine to publish their data on the Internet trying to expand their business and make their information more accessible. The IT industry proposes a wide range of original solutions for resolving data inconsistency problems that publishers inescapably face when exporting their data as they need to properly access, process and interchange large amounts of information mainly through the web.
2008-12-30
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Yan Pan explains how to set up proxies in SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and compares the differences between them
2008-12-30
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At first glance, a client appeared to be violating a cardinal rule of data warehousing. However, Bill Inmon's further investigation revealed that perhaps their actions were acceptable.
2008-12-29
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OPENROWSET is a T-SQL function that allows for reading data from many sources including using the SQL Server’s BULK import capability.
2008-12-29
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When creating tables it is difficult to determine exactly how the data will be accessed. Therefore when clustered indexes are chosen they are often just the ID column that makes the row unique. This may be a good choice, but once the application has been used and data access statistics are available you may need to go back and make some adjustments to your tables to ensure your clustered indexes are providing a benefit and not a drain on your applications.
2008-12-26
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This article describes the new Peer-to-Peer replication features in SQL Server 2008
2008-12-26
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We use the FTP task in SSIS to process a number of files from an FTP server. We would like to implement a step in our SSIS packages that would retrieve the list of files that are available on the FTP server before we try to process them.
2008-12-24
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Customer interactions reveal important trends and patterns that can help a company design a website that effectively communicates and markets its products and services.
2008-12-24
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The need to run a stored procedure or SQL Agent Job when SQL Server or SQL Agent starts is a common requirement in the world of SQL Server administration. This article gives an overview of the ways to execute SQL stored procedures or SQL Agent jobs on startup.
2008-12-23
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By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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