SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Part 40 - Web Service Task
Part 40 of this series reviews a Web Service Control Flow task that exposes an infinite range of easily deployable features by leveraging capabilities present in the .NET Framework.
Refactoring Databases: The Process
This article describes how to implement a single refactoring within your database. It contains a worked example of the Move Column structural refactoring, whereby we move the Customer.Balance column to the Account table, a seemingly straightforward change to improve the database design.
Easy code archiving in SQL Server 2005
Learn how to keep track of previous versions of code in case your next upgrade doesn't go well from SQL Server guru Tim Chapman.
Calculating Days of the Week and Accounting Months 5-4-4
Learn how to calculate days of the week based on the current date and how to calculate accounting months.
Change Data Capture with SSIS
In this presentation, Brian Knight shows you how to use canned SSIS components to detect data changes in a source table and only load new or conditionally update changed records. He shows you two methods: one using the OLE DB command and another using a set based operation and demostrates you the performance differences between the two.
Overview and Installing SQL Server 2005 SP2
In this presentation Brian shows you some of the new features in SQL Server 2005 SP2. Then, he demos briefly how to install SP2 and some of the small quirks around the installation.
Write PIVOT queries in SQL Server 2005
New to SQL Server 2005 is the PIVOT operator, which gives you the ability to rotate row level data into tabular data without the use of the CASE statement, as was necessary in previous versions of SQL Server.
Generating Surrogate-Keys for Type 1 and Type 2 dimensions using SSIS
We published a very interesting article about data warehousing in the SQL Server Standard awhile back. However the article was abridged and the author, a very respected data warehousing professional asked that we publish the entire thing here. So we bring you Harsh Bhaiya's very popular ETL treatise.
SQL Server 2005 Backups
If business today is data, then the entire enterprise is in the capable hands of you, the SQL Server DBA. Before you panic, check out Grant's detailed dissection of SQL 2005 backup and recovery regimes.
Pop Rivett's SQL Server FAQ No.5: Pop on the Audit Trail
Pop provides a cunning, trigger-based technique for auditing the activity on SQL Server tables
Blogs
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes
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Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
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T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
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What Power BI DirectQuery does to your SQL Server (and how to fix it)
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The Vector Data Type
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