Are You a Ten?
Are you truly an expert in SQL Server? Would you claim to be a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10? Steve Jones notes that the product is so wide and deep that it's unlikely any of us will be an expert in most of SQL Server, and that's OK.
Handy Hardware Assessment Tools For SQL Server
Here is a small selection of useful tools for getting some specific hardware information from any Windows based system you...
Implementing SQL Server Database Mail
Have you ever wished your database could tell you what's wrong or let you know when a task has completed? SQL Server's Database Mail allows the database to send out messages over SMTP. Deanna Dicken shows you how to set up Database Mail and send some messages.
Google Scale
Not many of us work at Google scale, where every little thing you do can matter. However Steve Jones thinks that the little things still matter when you are building software.
TSQL Challenge 43 – Identifying incomplete segments and missing elemen
This challenge involves writing a logic to identify incomplete segments and missing elements in an electronic data integration file exchanged between two applications.
Capturing and Logging Data Load Errors for an SSIS Package
In an ETL solution, error logging is a fundamental requirement for various aspects of the application and is very useful at various stages of the ETL execution life-cycle. Let's consider a scenario where our requirement is to insert records into a SQL Server table. The package should attempt loading all the records and whichever records fail, error details reported by the database engine should be reported. We will look at how to implement this in a SSIS package.
SQL Saturday #59 - New York City
A free day of training in New York City just before Thanksgiving. Come see Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey, along with a number of other great speakers.
Learning Sharepoint, SSIS and SSAS
Steve Jones outlines some ways that you might look to get additional training that can help move your career along.
Proving Your Identity
We have to provide security for our data, and to some extent that means verifying who has access. SQL Server has limited means for doing this other than relying on the OS, but Steve Jones has some ideas on how to make this more secure.
The Next Step for SQL Server
This past week saw the next version of SQL Server, code named Denali, released as a public CTP. Steve Jones comments on the new version.
Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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SQL ART: Who's Blocking Who? Visualising SQL Server Blocking With Spatial Geometry
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Running SQLCMD II
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Question of the Day
Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers