You can save a lot of time by using the SSIS Troubleshooting tools. These enable you to work with reduced data samples, monitor row counts, use data viewers, configure error-handling and monitoring package execution. Although you can develop SSIS packages without them, it is so much easier once you're familiar with these tools.
Steve Jones talks about his trip to SQL Bits 9: Query Across the Mersey, which begins today.
This article by Brian Davey describes how to setup log shipping for a large number of databases minimizing the number of jobs needed thus significantly reducing CPU and memory usage.
One of the primary goals of business intelligence is to transform raw data into meaningful information, by combining its sources, discovering its dependencies and patterns, and using them to predict future trends.
With the following technique, you can quickly read information stored in the extended properties of a SQL Server table.
It's time for the SQLServerCentral Party at PASS and Steve Jones talks about the event.
How can you tell when your SQL Server instance was last started? In this tip we look at various methods of how to get the start time for a SQL Server instance.
Today Steve Jones talks about the probabilities of different types of disasters occurring in your enterprise. He reminds you that the effort spent on disaster recovery ought to be related to the cost of the disaster, and the risk of it actually occurring.
Whereas there are plenty of experts prepared to help with the technology, few seem to come forward when the struggle is against the bureaucracy rather than a recalcitrant server. Where are all the SQL MVBs (Masters at Vanquishing Bureaucracy) when you need them!?
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Another of our values: The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who...
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Running tSQLt unit tests is great from Visual Studio but my development workflow...
Hi, We have low latency high volume system. I have a table having 3...
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?