In August 2009 I wrote a tip concerning checklists for third-party applications running against Microsoft SQL Server. I thought it was a good time to revisit the topic and provide an added bonus: a requirements document that you can download and customize for your own uses.
It is again time to play with some date/time values. This challenge involves reading the audit log entries generated by a monitoring application and create a report that shows the up-time and down-time of a system that the application is monitoring.
SQL Server MVP and SSIS guru, Andy Leonard, discusses Integration Services and some of the tasks and containers that he uses quite often.
It came as a surprise to many of us when Microsoft pulled from it's hat a rabbit in the form of an exciting, radical, language that offers an effective alternative to the Object-oriented orthodoxy. The creative force behind this language, F#, turns out to be a brilliant Cambridge-based Australian called Don Syme, already well known for his work on generics in .NET. F# has taken the specialised power of ML and OCaml and developed a versatile general-purpose .NET language. We sent Richard Morris across the road to investigate.
It is important to ensure that SQL code is laid out the best way for the team that has to use and maintain it. Before you work out how to enforce a standard, one has to work out what that standard should be for the application. So do you dive into detail or create an overall logic to the way it is done?
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Diagnostic report pack for SSRS that provides monitoring capabilities for all items on the Report Server.
A guest editorial from Brad McGeHee today talks about maintenance plans and his new book.
The company I work for has migrated to SQL Server 2008 and we're ready to start planning for the use of geospatial data. One of the applications we want to use geospatial data in will assist order fulfillers in efficiently picking stock for orders. Our warehouse is fairly large, which geospatial data type should we use?
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I have a SQL Server 2025 database that I want to check for corruption every night. One of the things we do is disable indexes used for ETL loads during the weekend and re-enable them on Monday morning. If we run DBCC over the weekend, are our disabled indexes checked for consistency?
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