Holiday Stress Test
Red Gate Software, a leading supplier or SQL Server and .NET tools has updated the classic "A Christmas Carol" to show the importance of stress testing.
2004-11-16
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Articles
Top Ten Features of Enterprise Manager
SQL Server 7 revamped Enterprise Manager to be an MMC snap in with many more capabilities and functions than it had in SQL Server 6.5. Dale Elizabeth Corey brings us a look at the top ten features in Enterprise Manager that you may not be aware of.
2004-11-16
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Introduction to Expressions on Workflow
SQL Server 2005 gives us loads of flexibility in our workflow management to decide how and if the following task should be executed. In this article we are going to introduce you to one of those ways and that is putting an expression into the workflow constraint itself.
2004-11-16
2,514 reads
All About Transactions - Part 1
The heart of an RDBMS is the transaction system that it employs. SQL Server has a great one that can easily be misunderstood or misused by those that haven't spent time delving into the details of how it works. Don Peterson has done that and brings us the start of a new series on the details of how transactions work in SQL Server.
2004-11-15
24,914 reads
The Script Component(As A Transform)
In this article we are going to assume a few things about the reader as we want to concentrate as much as possible on the Script Component itself and not the peripheral stuff
The things we will assume are:
* You are happy with adding a DataFlow task to the designer in Workflow
* You are happy to configure an OLEDB Source adapter
* You are comfortable with configuring mappings in the Destination adapter
2004-11-15
1,354 reads
Workflow Constraints (Logical OR)
To do some of the stuff we wanted in SQL Server 2000 DTS we had put together some serious glue code and to be honest it wasn't pretty. One of the things that we used to have to do this way was if we wanted to implement using workflow constraints a Logical OR. Well that has changed and it is now really simple and this article is going to show you how to implement it.
2004-11-12
1,404 reads
Best Practices are always the Best
On this site, we have taken a contrarian approach to looking at the ways to configure SQL Server with our Worst Practices series. However Microsoft still looks at it from the other side and release a tool called the Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server. Author Dinesh Asanka brings us a short look at this tool.
2004-11-11
12,627 reads
The OLE DB Command Transformation
In the newsgroups we have been asked on a number of occasions how to execute a stored procedure once for every row of input data. There's currently no really good way of doing this but in SQL Server 2005 DTS that is about to change. This article is going to show you how to take values from a source table and for every row execute a stored procedure which inserts values into another table.
2004-11-11
1,551 reads
An Alternative XML Solution
SQL Server 2000 added support for XML documents in a few ways. However the support was a little kludgy as it had not been designed into the product from the beginning, but added on later. New author Wayne Fillis brings us some C++ code and a new way to easily retrieve well formed XML documents from your SQL Server.
2004-11-10
8,638 reads
Get a Lean, Mean Dev Machine with the Express Editions of Visual Basic
When I got my hands on an early copy of SQL Server 2005 Express and Visual Basic 2005 Express, I decided to build something fun. Read on to see what is built.
2004-11-10
2,655 reads
Blogs
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Forums
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SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
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URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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