With SQL Server 2008's new Data Collection feature and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW), came three system Data Collection sets. This article covers the different data collection standard reports that have been provided to display information related to the statistics collected by the system data collections.
2008-11-11
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Is there a way I can automate a file deletion process from within SQL Server?
2008-11-11
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The following article shows how Change Data Capture can be used to capture incremental data changes and use them in an ETL Process
2008-11-10
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Permissions on data are one of the most critical aspects of database administration.
2008-11-10
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There are a lot of scripts out there that will allow you to use the msdb to auto-generate restore scripts, but what if you cannot access the msdb database. What is the easiest way to make sure I have the proper restore scripts on hand without relying on the msdb database?
2008-11-07
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In this whitepaper, you will see the benefits of migrating your SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages to Integration Services by using two proven methods. You will also see how you can run and manage your current DTS packages inside of the SQL Server 2005 and 2008 management tools.
2008-11-07
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Part 20 of the "SqlCredit – Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" examines SQL 2005’s NTILE() and ROW_NUMBER() Ranking Functions.
2008-11-06
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To illustrate the great possibilities of Systems Center Operations Manager 2007, Thomas shows how to create a Custom Monitor for SQL Agent Jobs, and concludes that Operations Manager is nothing more than a big tinker set.
2008-11-06
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How do you handle this error? "Cannot create index on view, because the view is not schema bound".
2008-11-05
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This article describes how to work with large objects in SQL Server using the MAX Specifier
2008-11-05
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The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
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I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
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