Computer professionals are constantly complaining about the documentation for the software they use. And are notorious for not documenting their own code very well. Longtime author Raj Vasant brings us a short article with some suggestions on how to go about documenting your databases.
What will happen in the job market for DBAs this year? Steve Jones gives a few opinions based on what is happening in the industry.
Views are handy constructs for abstracting security and simplfying queries, but they can have unexpected results sometimes. Longtime DBA Peter He takes a look at subquery issues in views.
Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson introduces the numeric Max()function, and leads hands-on practice examples of the basic concepts.
Top SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) tips from migrating and running DTS packages, to SSIS debugging, maintenance and programming in SQL Server 2005.
While it's not likely that many of you need to find prime numbers using T-SQL, it is an interesting programming exercise. SQL Server guru Kathi Kellenburger brings us one solution after taking a break over the holidays and reading some popular fiction.
Rumor has it that Concatenation functions have gotten the nasty reputation of being "performance hogs". Here's why that's not true.
Greg Larsen discusses the different options available within SQL Server 2005 for managing security.
Buck Woody discusses the hard-earned knowledge and experience that you'll need to gain in order to stand out as a and professional and exceptional DBA.
It's important that you manage your career and not just leave it to chance. Steve Jones talks about what you might do to ensure that you'll be successful in the IT world.
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