One of the most integral components and critical success factors of any enterprise data warehousing initiative is the Solutions Architecture document, a high-level conceptual model of a data warehousing solution. Learn why this collaborative effort that addresses the needs of all major stakeholders, including both the business units and Information Technology (IT), is essential.
You can create a database under the assumption that SQL looks after all the problems of concurrency. It will probably work fine under test conditions: then, in the production environment, it starts losing data in subtle ways that defy repetition. It is every Database Developer's nightmare. In an excerpt from his acclaimed book, Alex Kuznetsov explains why it happens, and how you can avoid such problems.
Take your peers out of their comfort zone and do you know how well they'll perform?
An article from Scott Zurolo tests the terformance of SQL Server 2008 Table Valued Parameters against more traditional methods of updating many rows at once.
In this part of NULL Defense series, we will discuss how to create NULL Defense in Script Transformation.
If you have multiple ports, this article from Mark Greenbaum will tell you which port a connection is using
A guest editorial from Andy Warren. Experience helps us do a better job, and one way you can get that is learning from experts.
The staging area tends to be one of the more overlooked components of a data warehouse architecture, and yet it is an integral part of the ETL component design. Learn why it is best to design the staging layer right the first time, enabling support of various ETL processes and related methodology, recoverability and scalability.
The July 2010 PASS Performance VC Presentation by Jason Strate on July 6th 12:00 PM EDT (GMT -4).
The provided SSIS package contains a single script task that will script all SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Agent Jobs into individual files.
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The North Star for the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers