With the advent of so many new technologies in the Microsoft space, a DBA needs to learn more and more about many of them that aren't a part of SQL Server. Alex Grinberg brings us a technique he has used to create ADO functions for your stored procedures.
What's in a database health report? Steve Jones asks what you might want to put in one for this Friday's poll.
We bring you part 2 of a series on SSIS programming from Ira Whiteside and Actuality Business Intelligence. This article shows you how to dynamically build a package using code.
This white paper compares TDE with these other encryption methods for application developers and database administrators. While this is not a technical, in-depth review of TDE, technical implementations are explored and a familiarity with concepts such as virtual log files and the buffer pool are assumed.
Retrieving a hierarchy with recursive relationships can be difficult in SQL. Easily implement these relationships with a parent-child dimension using Analysis Services MDX.
The state of project management for technology projects doesn't seem to be keeping up with technology itself. Steve Jones talks a little about what might be wrong.
In this new SQL School video, MVP Brian Knight shows how you can schedule your SSIS packages to execute at a specific time or on a recurring schedule.
This article explores how we can import XML into SQL Server using a powerful open source tool called XMLStarlet
What's in a database health report? Steve Jones asks what you might want to put in one for this Friday's poll.
What's in a database health report? Steve Jones asks what you might want to put in one for this Friday's poll.
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