Speed or Value?
Everyone wants extreme performance from their systems, but is that always the way to look at things? This Friday Steve Jones asks about how you consider performance in your purchasing decisions.
The Many Benefits of Money…Data Type!
Our initial reason for looking at the money data type can be found within the Precision Considerations for Analysis Services Users white paper. In this white paper, we provide extensive examples of the types of precision issues when your SQL relational data source and your Microsoft® SQL Server® Analysis Services cube have different non-matching data types (e.g., if you query one way you get the value 304253.3251, but run the query in another way and you get the value 304253.325100001).
Managerial Relations
Steve Jones talks a bit more about the employee manager relationship in this turbulent times.
XML Workshop XXII - A TSQL RSS Library
RSS feeds are becoming almost required for any type of data publication. SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian brings us the next installment of his XML Workshop series that looks at a series of T-SQL functions to generate the RSS formatted data.
Blog: How to Script a Profiler Trace as a SQL Trace Data Collection Set
MVP Brad McGehee shows how you can use Trace data as a source for your data collections for the new Management Data Warehouse
How To Use Transactions in a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Package
I am trying to build an SSIS package where the entire package is encapsulated in a transaction. In addition there is a table that needs to remain locked for the duration of the SSIS package execution. Can you provide an example of how to do this?
Jumping the Gun
How quickly should security issues be reported? Steve Jones isn't sure, but he talks a bit about what we might want to do.
Jumping the Gun
How quickly should security issues be reported? Steve Jones isn't sure, but he talks a bit about what we might want to do.
Jumping the Gun
How quickly should security issues be reported? Steve Jones isn't sure, but he talks a bit about what we might want to do.
Navigationless Database XML: Hierarchical Data Processing
Although current databases limit XML processing to linear XPath or XQuery queries, existing hierarchical database techniques enable far more complex queries using standard SQL.
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
Forums
The New Wave of Security Threats
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There's Too Much to Learn
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How to Calculate Distance Between Coordinates in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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