Enterprise Architecture: Connect-Dots for Adults, Part 2
This article, the second in a series, discusses what items could be contained in the enterprise architecture and touches briefly on how to organize the objects.
Monitoring on a Budget
Have you ever been asked for information you couldn't provide because you didn't have an historical monitoring tool? Try this
Open Enrollment
It's the time of year where employment benefits renew for many US employees. Steve Jones talks about how much your company should care about your health.
The Weekly News for November 19, 2007
A few comments on the news of the past week: SQL Server 2008 CPT5, a 1.6SSD Array, Non-Compete agreements and more.
Declarative Management Framework - Performing Policy Management
The Declarative Management Framework is a new policy based management framework included with the upcoming SQL Server 2008. Using this feature administrators can define policies to govern their SQL Server environments much like in the Windows environment. This article, written based on the SQL Server "Katmai" July CTP introduces you to the DMF and shows you how you can perform policy management.
Importing Text-based data: Workbench
Robyn and Phil return with some fresh ideas about how to import text files into SQL Server, without resorting to DTS or SSIS scripting. They go on to show how much can be done in TSQL
SQL Server Job Scheduling
The scheduling system in SQL Server is quite flexible and powerful, but can be confusing at times. Peter He looks at some of the advanced options you have in automating the various jobs on your server.
Create a Custom Test Interface Provider for Team Sytem
This article looks at fuzzy testing and how to build a provider for your own use.
SQL Server 2005 Database Options and Configuration Performance Audit Checklist
As part of your performance audit, you will need to examine each database located on each of your SQL Server instances and examine some basic database settings.
Rethinking Analysis Services
Integrate SQL 2005, ASP.NET, Reporting Service and Analysis Services to rapidly develop and deploy a survey application for data entry and results analysis.
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Visualising Vectors in High Dimensional Space
Following on from my previous post on building The Burrito Bot, I want to...
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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