Linked Servers are an interesting technology in SQL Server to allow remote access from within the database to external data sources. They can be a boon in a heterogenous environment with other Oracle, DB2, etc. data sources. But they can also help in a smaller scale against those "hidden" datasources like Excel or Access. New Author Krishna.
A synonym is a new object to SQL Server 2005. It is a way to give an alias to an already existing object. For example, if you have a table named SalesHistoryFromArchiveF
If you've ever used SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), you will have come across raw files. Microsoft introduced them with SSIS as a mechanism for storing data on the local file system. The design of raw files enables data to be written very quickly but, unfortunately, to achieve this performance Microsoft has used a proprietary binary storage format.
Continuing with his series on XML in SQL Server 2005, Jacob Sebastian brings us a number of examples on how to work with XML in different situations with SQL Server 2005.
The only way to guarantee that your business rules are always enforced for all your data is by using constraints. Learn how to use them to enforce business rules in the database.
In systems that require, for auditing purposes, advanced logging and reproducibility of reports between runs, a straightforward update, insert, or delete may be counter-productive. In such circumstances, a bitemporal model is necessary
Our SQL Server Security expert, Brian Kelley, brings us the first part of a new series on auditing. Most of the auditing articles we've had are based on how you audit changes to data. Brian looks at auditing from the server itself, explaining the different levels of auditing built into SQL Server 2000.
COALESCE() accepts a series of values and a value to use in the event that all items in the list are null; then, it returns the first not-null value. This tip describes two creative uses of the COALESCE() function in SQL Server.
Full scan statistics update can be slow and expensive on a large system, and a single update statistics job for a whole database can easily exceed an overnight maintenance window. This article looks at jobs that could update statistics on the system in parallel.
Robyn Page delves into all the things you need to know, rather than want to know, about SQL Server replication.
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