Licensing SQL Server used to be easy and could be again, though it is still better than licensing Oracle.

Toward Integrity Part 3

by Troy Ketsdever

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Data Modeling

An exploration of the process of translating a conceptual model to a logical model, and ultimately, a faithful implementation using T-SQL.

RAID Scaling Charts, Part 1

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Tom's Hardware

Hardware

Most enthusiast and mainstream users would consider setting up a RAID array mainly for performance reasons - few really care about data safety. For this reason, the majority of arrays installed consists of only two drives, which run a simple RAID 0 stripe set. Haven't you ever asked yourself how these RAID arrays scale as you increase the number of hard drives?

Speed up SQL Server database queries with these tips

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Performance Tuning

If you've worked with SQL Server databases for any amount of time, it's practically a given that you've run into slow running queries. Learn how you may be able to improve performance by knowing what to look for in your query designs.

An Introduction to the Service Broker

by Srinivas Sampath

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Development

One of the more interesting new features in SQL Server 2005 is the Service Broker. It's not something to help you manage your financial future, nor is it some new program that handles all the instances and their accounts. It's a message queue and SQL Server MVP Srinivas Sampath brings us a look at this new feature with some code to get you going.

Exception handling in DTS

by Jambu Krishnamurthy

SQLServerCentral.com

While SSIS is taking the SQL Server 2005 world by storm, there are many DBAs still working with SQL Server 2000 and its ETL system: DTS. In this article, Jambu Krishnamurthy shows us how to modify the exception handling in a DTS package to get around the limitations of the designer.