Many of us still have SQL Server 2000 DTS packages running throughout our environment. New author Owais Bashir Ahmed brings us an interesting technique for moving those packages between servers that might come in handy as you continue to work on these packages in SQL Server 2000.
The Multicast transform in SSIS 2005 enables us to take 1 input dataset and from it generate n output datasets that are an exact copy of the input dataset which is extremely useful at times and we have used it on a number of projects.
Continuing on with a look at SQL Server 205 partitioning features, Andy Warren delves into archiving techniques.
We don't have a release date, the final feature set has yet to be released, but slowly I can see the train building steam. This week I found a number of blogs starting to look at various aspects of SQL Server 2008. If you look through the newsletter, you'll see coverage of data compression, clustering […]
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Part 3 of this series illustrates how to script PowerShell cmdlets and execute them. Scripting is essential for automation and executing repetitive tasks.
SQL Server 2005's default trace is great for monitoring system information and for finding out what happened on your server after problems occur. However, there are times when the events that the default captures are not what you need. Here are instructions for how you can create your own trace files in TSQL to catch events on your database machine.
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