When an enterprise first encounters master data management, it often doesn’t have a clear understanding of how MDM will affect the architecture of its business transaction systems or business intelligence systems. This article describes master data patterns in legacy system architectures, a general MDM architecture and some ways the new MDM layer affects the master data patterns in the legacy layers.
Having been married to Microsoft for most of my professional career doesn’t mean I drink the Kool-Aid. I have had the distinct privilege to grow up in interesting times. I loved DOS. As a BBS operator DOS was the de facto OS for most BBSes that ran on..
Learn how you can create your own data types in this SQL School video. MVP Andy Warren explains the process of setting up user-defined data types.
What do you want when you go to a conference? Great speakers or great information? Steve Jones talks a little about how we get both in the future.
Learn how to minimize downtime while moving databases using Backup/Restore in SQL Server.
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
This Friday Steve Jones asks about advice for other DBAs. What's the best way for those intermediate and accidental DBAs to handle maintenance on their servers?
Learn to enable the FILESTREAM feature in SQL Server 2008 and configure your database to support it.
As I've related previously (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5) I've been working author and speaker Don Gabor on my networking skills. We recently did our final call of the six hours coaching planned, and thought I'd share some final thoughts.
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DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers