Are you up to the latest design challenge? A great way to sharpen our analysis and modeling skills is to continuously address real-world scenarios. A modeling scenario with suggested solutions appears each month in this Design Challenge column. The scenario is emailed to more than 1,000 modelers. The responses are then consolidated into this column.
2006-10-16
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This article examines a variety of ways in which you can execute all the SSIS packages in a folder.
2006-10-13
1,958 reads
Arthur Fuller advises DBAs to try to break their software in order to make sure their SQL Server databases can withstand potential attacks. See if your code can hold up to his suggested tests.
2006-10-12
3,499 reads
Database concurrency conflicts are somewhat of a plague in software development because they're hard to predict and handle. Unfortunately, they're also hard to prevent.
2006-10-11
2,638 reads
This tip shows you how to execute and use the results of prediction queries in multiple ways within the SQL Server relational database engine.
2006-10-10
2,466 reads
Microsoft has come to the rescue for managing large text fields in SQL Server 2005, by creating a few new large value data types. This article explores these new data types.
2006-10-09
2,297 reads
In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 (SSRS). We built one report with the Report Wizard, and one report using the Report Designer. In Part 2, we are going to look in more depth at the features that you can use everyday as an SSRS developer.
2006-10-06
3,902 reads
This video by Richard Waymire will describe how to install and configure SQL Server 2005 to support Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals database projects.
2006-10-06
2,081 reads
Is your company trying to accelerate cycle times, lower costs, improve responsiveness, ensure compliance with policies and best practices, and increase customer satisfaction? Well, of course! That's why you need a comprehensive approach to managing your organization's business rules
2006-10-05
2,259 reads
Tim Chapman discusses using table valued functions with the APPLY function.
2006-10-04
2,404 reads
One feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize...
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In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers