I'd like to hear the thoughts of DBAs out there on Windows and SQL Azure, and the prospects of moving applications and databases into the clouds. How many DBAs work for companies that have done it or are seriously considering it? What are the deepest concerns?
A holiday in the US has most people away from work. Steve Jones leaves you a few thoughts and humor from his vacation.
It is recommended that you remove all special characters and HTML formatting. This task can be handled in TSQL code, however in this case I have the opportunity to use .NET and the power of the regular expressions to manage the string. In this tip, I'll build a CLR function which cleans up a string of HTML tags and special characters. I'll use Visual Studio 2010 with C# as the programming language. Check out this tip for my solution.
Arshad Ali examines the different types and different layers of security that SQL Server Service Broker provides during communication and while accessing Service Broker objects.
This editorial was originally published on Oct 25, 2005. Steve Jones talks about the idea of a sabbatical from work and the problems that might ensue if you haven't properly planned it.
Monitoring your SQL Server instances and figuring out what's going on is important to keep an eye on your environment. David Bird brings us a new series that looks at how you might start setting this up with Integration Services.
FTP Task lets you copy files across distributed, frequently incompatible systems.
This editorial was originally published on October 20, 2005. It is being reprinted as Steve is on vacation. I know there was a great uproar over the interview piece at the beginning of this week and I received lots of opinions on various parts of the article, good and bad to go over. But one […]
Learn the basics of first normal form and what that means to a database designer from Tom Thomson.
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Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
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This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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