Social Software
More and more companies are looking to use social software, like Facebook, to link employees, but is this a good thing?
Best Practices when performing maintenance in a DBM environment
If you have configured database mirroring in synchronous with or without automatic failover mode, you can switch to the mirror server instance and make it available to the clients while you perform hardware or software maintenance on the principal server instance. So let’s see how we can do this:
How to import an Excel file into SQL Server 2005 using Integration Services
Integration Services, which replaces Data Transformation Services (DTS) in SQL Server 2005, is a tool for extracting, transforming, and loading data.
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
A Refresher on Joins
Knowing the various types of joins can greatly expand your T-SQL skills. Jambu Krishnamurthy brings us a refresher article on the various types of joins and how to write them.
Bad Automation
Coming up with ways to do things automatically with software can be a boon to productivity, but not every idea is a good one.
Interview with Chuck Kelley - Part I
An interview with a data warehousing expert Chuck Kelley with some views about the careers in data warehousing.
XML Workshop XVII - Writing a LOOP to process XML elements in TSQL
Jacob Sebastian brings a little more complexity to working with XML documents. Here we learn how to iterate through a document and use each node and perform some action on each one.
Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
Hi, I have a SQL Server instance where users connect to via Windows Authentication,...
Multiple Deployment Processes
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How to Use sqlpackage to Detect Schema Drift Between Azure SQL Databases
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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