Slicing and Dicing
There can be a lot more value when pieces of data are put together than when they exist separately. Steve Jones comments on a few ways people are repackaging information in the modern world.
Slicing and Dicing
There can be a lot more value when pieces of data are put together than when they exist separately. Steve Jones comments on a few ways people are repackaging information in the modern world.
Where is my app.config for SSIS?
Sometimes when working with SSIS you need to add or change settings in the .NET application configuration file, which can be a bit confusing when you are building a SSIS package not an application. First of all lets review a couple of examples where you may need to do this.
Murach’s ADO.NET 3.5, LINQ, and the Entity Framework with C# 2008
Read a sample chapter from this new book about C# and LINQ from Murach.
Post Snapshot Script - SQL School Video
The post snapshot script in replication allows you to make changes to the subscriber after you complete a snapshot. Unaware of this feature? Watch this episode of SQL School.
There's a Lot to Learn From Even Simple Puzzles
Phil reflects on the problem-solving power of SQLServerCentral at its best, and mentions some of the impressive contributions to the Summer SQL Stumpers competition
24 Hours of PASS
Rick Heiges has put together an interesting event coming up on Sep 2, 2009 called 24 Hours of PASS. As...
Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices
The data compression feature in SQL Server 2008 helps compress the data inside a database, and it can help reduce the size of the database. Apart from the space savings, data compression provides another benefit: Because compressed data is stored in fewer pages, queries need to read fewer pages from the disk, thereby improving the performance of I/O intensive workloads. However, extra CPU resources are required on the database server to compress and decompress the data, while data is exchanged with the application. Therefore, it is important to understand the workload characteristics when deciding which tables to compress.
Using INSTEAD OF triggers in SQL Server for DML operations
In SQL Server 2000 and onwards there are INSTEAD OF triggers that can be used to carry out such tasks. Although these types of triggers can be used in a number of scenarios their primary function is to perform DML operations through such views. This tip shows how to use INSTEAD OF triggers to handle these DML operations on views.
Backup to the Cloud - No Excuses
With the proliferation of high availability & specialist online Backup companies, do we really have any excuses left to NOT have an offsite backup location, even if it is in the Cloud? Brad things not...
Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
By gbargsley
If you've been here before, you know this blog is usually about SQL Server,...
Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
I’ve been doing storage load tests for SQL Server for a long time, both...
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Question of the Day
How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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