Brad worries that with the advent and growth of social media, has come an increasing concern that today's private conversation may turn into tomorrow's world-wide Tweet.

TSQL Challenge 38 - Calculate SQL Stars awarded to the Winners of TSQL

by Press Release

SQLServerCentral.com

T-SQL Challenges

This challenge involves parsing a delimited string and applying some logic to perform some calculations based on the position of tokens within the string.

Rebuilding Indexes using the SSMS Database Maintenance Wizard

by Brad McGehee

SimpleTalk

Management Studio (SSMS)

Index fragmentation can cause problems with query performance. Indexes therefore need to be occasionally rebuilt. the Rebuild Index task of the SSMS Database Maintenance Wizard drops and rebuilds every index in a database. It is effective but an off-line activity that is resource-intensive, so it not always the best way of avoiding index fragmentation in a production database. Brad explains..

Appliances - Just Add Data

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This Friday Steve Jones asks about your feelings on data appliances.

Introduction to SQL Server Statistics

by Press Release

SQLServerCentral.com

A free virtual chapter presentation by Andy Warren on Sept 7, 2010 at 12:00EDT. This beginner to intermediate level session will introduce you to statistics, including how to create, manage, troubleshoot, and more!

Sending scheduled SQL query results via HTML e-mail using SSIS

by Paul Clancy

SQLServerCentral.com

Integration Services (SSIS)

Send SQL query results as HTML-formatted e-mail using SQL Server Integration Services.

SQLBits - The 7 Wonders of SQL

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SQLServerCentral.com

Events

Last day for early bird registration for the next SQLBits conference on Sept 30th-Oct 2, 2010 at York University. SQLServerCentral has a discount code if you'd like to attend.

Automatic Restart of SSIS packages after Failover or Failure

by Additional Articles

TechNet Blogs

Integration Services (SSIS)

SSIS makes it possible to minimize work lost by starting after the last successfully executed control flow task upon restarting a failed package. From there, one challenge many seek to overcome is automatically restarting that package at that point without any manual intervention. This would make it possible for your SSIS packages to be running, your cluster to failover, and your SSIS packages to restart and complete without you having to respond to the failover and restart them.