Using VBScript to Automate Tasks
This article discusses why VBScript should be one of the tools you use to manage your server. Sample scripts show how to remove files over x days old and how to FTP files.
Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects
This article from MSDN discusses the benefits of TDD and bringing unit testing to your database development.
Bad Meetings
A joint editorial this week from the Red Gate team looking back at the news of the week.
Bad Meetings
A joint editorial this week from the Red Gate team looking back at the news of the week.
Extending SQL Server Reporting Services with SQL CLR Table-Valued Functions
This article describes how to take advantage of SQL CLR table-valued functions to combine different types of data sources to create rich and exciting SQL Server Reporting Services reports.
Dreams of the Future
Steve Jones looks ahead to an interesting trip for the future of a couple of technical geeks.
How to Break Replication
David Poole is a regular author at SQLServerCentral.com, sharing many of his knowledge and experiences with us over the years. This time he examines some of the issues that you might have with replication.
Loading a 24x7 Data Warehouse
More and more companies are using data warehouses as a way of consolidating business critical information. And more and more of these companies want the warehouse available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This presents interesting challenges for the DBA involved in ETL processing. Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich brings us one solution for this problem.
Dimensional Model Components: Dimensions Part II
Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his subseries surrounding components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In the second half of this article, we extend our focus on dimensions to include property settings for Cube Dimensions.
Featured Blog: iFTS Performance – DocidMap
This next post from MVP Simon Sabin examines one of the major improvements in performance of search.
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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