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SSIS: Using InfoPath XML Files in SSIS XMLSource Adapter

InfoPath forms can be saved to XML, these XML Files can later be used in SSIS XMLSource adapter to pull out the data in tables and columns. However, there are some common problems you may meet in these scenarios. This article describes how to work around these potential problems. The issues mentioned in this article is not only specific to InfoPath files, it can also be referenced in other similar situations as well.

2006-03-31

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Red Gate Photo Competition!

Most of the time, it's the simplest tools that have the biggest impact on our lives. If you have a camera and believe, like Leonardo DaVinci, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, then why not enter Red Gate's Ingeniously Simple Tools photo competition...
To enter is simple. All you need to do is send us a photo of your favorite, simple tool.

2006-03-30

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Healthcare Data Models Matter

Healthcare applications come and go, but data live on forever. We’ve seen that since the beginning of the computer industry; when we move from legacy systems into more “modern” architectures, we often leave behind applications, but we almost always take along the data into the future. Even though data are so important, we in health-IT don’t seem to spend the quality time necessary to structure our schemas and databases in such a way as to make it easier to maintain in the future. We often don’t design our data models solidly, and we don’t test them well by putting them through simulations or design them for multiple versions.

2006-03-27

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Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases

You may be wonderfully up-to-date with an AJAX Web interface or the latest whizbang Windows user interface, but under the covers, you're probably still pumping data in and out of a database, just as we all did a decade or more ago. That makes it all the more surprising that developers are still making the same database mistakes that date back to those good old days of Windows 95 and before.

2006-03-23

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Cycling the ERRORLOG file and Deleting Backup History Information

Every DBA needs a few tricks up his/her sleeves to help them better manage their SQL Server 2000 environment. In this article I will explore a couple of such tricks. I will first explore how to cycle the SQL Server error log, and why you might want to do this. Secondly I will discuss backup history information and why you would need to periodically remove some of the older history information.

2006-03-16

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Putting the Player with the Number

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return? 

DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix',
@num VARCHAR = '10'

SELECT @player || @num

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