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?
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.
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.
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.
If someone acts suspicious at work, do you report them? What if it's the CIO? What if data security is involved?
Pivot and UnPivot are key data transformation functions for SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS).
Malicious code embedded inside advertisements served on the web. What's next?
Most DBAs are constantly looking for ways to tune their servers to run better. Joe Doherty brings us the second part of his series on indexes with an in depth look at how the indexes are stored in your database.
Discusses the techniques and reasons to use opendatasource for reading text files in SQL Server 2005.
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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