Fine Tuning your Database Design in SQL 2005
If your SQL Server app is suffering from poor performance and you suspect a missing index, then read on
Running and Scheduling SSIS Packages
In this presentation, Brian shows you how to run a SSIS package outside the designer environment using DTExec.exe and DTExecUI.exe. He also shows you how to schedule an SSIS package using SQL Server Agent.
Check Your SQL Server Identity
Retrieving the identity value from an inserted row should be a very simple task. But based on his survey at TechEd 2005 as well as some recent interviews, Andy Warren points out some of the wrong answers and turmoils he has faced in getting this question answered.
Contract Coding: Ensuring your Client pays up
Damon Armstrong learned the hard way about the consequences of not having a clearly defined project scope or work contract
SQL Server Spotlight on Jerome Halmans
The SQL Server memory manager is one of the more complicated parts of SQL Server and we had the chance recently to talk to the person that ensures it runs as smoothly as possible. Get to know the man behind the SQLOS.
Calculating financial values in SQL Server
SQL Server 2000 and 2005 do not include much in the way of financial functions, but there are many sources for the formulas for financial calculations. In this tip, I present the present value (PV) and future value (FV) functions, both of which are scalar UDFs.
Writing Simple Select Statements - Part 3
In this video, Kathi continues her T-SQL series and exands how to use the WHERE clause.
Get Your SQL Server Standard Electronically
We've moved the subscriptions for the SQL Server Standard to it's own site and just completed the November issue. Read on for how to access your subscriptions or subscribe today.
Last Chance to Save
This is the last week to register for the PASS 2006 Summmit in Seattle and save $300. Read on about what you'll be missing if you don't get up there.
SQL Server DATE/TIME Workbench
The definitively "hands-on" guide to handling dates and times in SQL Server
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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