his article will explore various methods of accessing SQL Server from inside Microsoft Expression Web. Microsoft Expression Web is a graphical development tool for creating web pages and is part of the new Expression Studio.
The .NET Framework 2.0 introduces a very handy new class in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace called SqlBulkCopy that makes it very easy and efficient to copy large amounts of data from your .NET applications to a SQL Server database. You can even use this class to write a short .NET application that can serve as a "middleman" to move data between database servers.
Allen White provides an SMO script for automating database log backups, using either native backup or Red Gate's SQL Backup tool.
In this session, Brian shows you how to use configuration files or a configuration file to dynamically configure your packages. With configuration files, you can seamlessly migrate an SSIS package from QA to production without worry and without having to reconfigure the package.
Longtime author here, Michael Coles, has written a new book on SQL Server 2005 Programming and has sent us a sample chapter on SQLCLR programming. Download the chapter and source code and grab this great book from your favorite bookseller.
In this session, Brian shows you the basics of the SQL Server Integration Services Control Flow. He shows you how to orchestrate a package in the control flow with precedence constraints and how they relate tasks together in the control flow and how to tasks are executed and in what order. He also shows some of the advanced properties of the control flow that help with parallelism.
Planning for disaster recovery in SQL Server Analysis Services can be tricky. Fortunately SQL Server 2005 introduces the concept of a database synchronization, allowing you to transfer information and meta data from one server to another. Yaniv Mor brings us a look at this feature.
In this presentation, Ira shows you how to data profile in SSIS using a Script transform and some creative methods like RegEx. He shows you how to look for patterns in your data to find bad data that wouldn't be obvious to the eye or casual viewer.
Connecting to a SQL Server 2005 database is a simple process, but connecting to an Analysis Services 2005 database takes a bit more effort. Longtime data warehousing author Jacob Sebastian brings us a quick tutorial on how you can connect from Management Studio.
In this demonstration, you'll quickly learn how to create a basic cube using the Cube Wizard upon a data warehouse. Brian walks through the entire process in this 10 minute video to get you started with creating a browsing a cube.
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When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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