TSQL Lab I - Playing around with ROW_NUMBER
Real world solutions are key and having different techniques can sometimes help you code quicker. Longtime author Jacob Sebastian shows us how to solve a few problems with different techniques.
Populating Dimension Tables with the SCD Task
ETLing dimensions through SQL Server 2000 DTS, has more or less been quite a hassle, what with the lengthy ActiveX scripts and lookups that have to be performed. Enter SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: The Slowly Changing Dimension task has made it much simpler.
Snapshot Reports I: Report Manager Perspective
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his subseries surrounding Caching Options, examining the use of Report Manager to configure Snapshot Caching.
Data Breaches
Security is hard, but are we doing a good job? Steve Jones shares a few thoughts on our security development practices
Trigger Trivia
From SQL Server trainer and guru Andy Warren, he are a few short nuggets that you might not realize about triggers.
SQL Server Management Objects: Lessons from the Wild
Harness the power of SQL Server Management Objects to create, document, and manage your SQL Server databases.
SqlCredit – Part 10: MAC Performance and Updating SqlCredit
This month's installment of "Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" covers MAC performance results, a summary of encryption findings, and comments on updating the SqlCredit code based on those findings.
Cleaning Address Data with SSIS Using a Web Service
This article describes how to call a web service to clean up address data from within a data flow.
Quick Hits on the News for Nov 12, 2007
A few comment on the database news for the week ending 11/10/07
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RegEx Functions I
Which of these RegEx functions need compatibility level 170 in SQL Server 2025?
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