Using PowerShell for SQL Server Database Backups
If you're starting to learn PowerShell and want to see how you can use it for common DBA tasks, this tip will show you how to create a basic PowerShell script to backup all your user databases.
Custom SSMS Shortcuts for ETL Developer. Part 3: Source-Target Mapping
Provides a SQL code that generates a source-target transformation query and can be helpful at several stages of data warehouse development lifecycle.
What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks today about he various items that collect around your work space. Are they useful? should you be cleaning things up? What does this say about you?
Debugging Data Flow in SQL Server Integration Services
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.
Bits Bound
Steve Jones talks about his trip to SQL Bits 9: Query Across the Mersey, which begins today.
How to Setup Log Shipping for Multiple Databases
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.
Data Mining Query Task in SQL Server Integration Services
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.
Custom SSMS Shortcuts for ETL Developer. Part 2: Extended Properties
With the following technique, you can quickly read information stored in the extended properties of a SQL Server table.
Know when to hold 'em
It's time for the SQLServerCentral Party at PASS and Steve Jones talks about the event.
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Distance Metric Algorithms
What are the distance metric algorithms that can be used in VECTOR_DISTANCE()?
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