Getting Warmer - How to Implement Hot Failover in .NET 1.1 with SQL 20
What happens if you try to specify a Failover Partner in .NET 1.1?
Looping Through and Loading Files with SSIS
In this presentation, you'll learn how to use the ForEach Loop Container to loop through a folder and load each file in the directory. This presentation uses variables to dynamically configure the package so nothing is hard coded.
Building Automated Backups
Backups are the foundation of any well run database server, or even any computer system. Numerous articles have been written about SQL Server backups and new author Paulo Luis brings us a new twist on building automated backups using devices.
Career Paths for Programmers
The key to maintaining a good employment outlook in IT, it seems, is to move out of programming and up into more business-oriented IT positions such as systems analyst, business analyst, project manager, or systems architect. However, a computer programmer can't just decide to become a systems analyst or project manager overnight.
Clustering SQL Server 2005
With Windows 2003 now clustered, you're ready to begin to clustering SQL Server 2005. In this presentation, you'll see how to cluster SQL Server 2005 and some best practices in how to configure the SQL Server cluster after the fact.
SSIS At Christmas
Due to overwhelming demand, we've opened up another Integration Services class. Start Christmas vacation early in Orlando on Dec 18.
The Report Builder
Andy Warren brings us an introduction the the Report Builder in SQL Server 2005. It's the less often used tool for developing and customizing reports that you can give to end users and lower the number of requests your developers receive.
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Performance - Part 30
The superiority of SSIS over DTS goes beyond functionality alone, providing numerous efficiency benefits, which we will present in more detail in this article.
Using the OUTPUT Clause to Capture Identity Values on Multi-Row Insert
SQL Server 2005 introducted the OUTPUT clause which we can use to capture values from the inserted and deleted virtual tables.
SQL Server Spotlight on Eric Lee
A slight departure from the usual Spotlight series. We have Eric Lee, project leader for the Team Foundation Server. It's not a part of SQL Server, but it's a product that many DBAs will get exposed to. Read on about another interesting member of the Microsoft development team.
Blogs
Using SQL Compare with Redgate Data Modeler
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Who’s the Winningest Coach (with AI Help)
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Learning from Mistakes: T-SQL Tuesday #194
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We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
Forums
Azure-SSIS, Self-Hosted Integration Runtime, & Data Gateway?
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Basic Always On Groups Randomly Stop Synchronizing
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Learning From Breakage
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Question of the Day
Adding and Dropping Columns I
I have this table in my SQL Server 2022 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CityList] ( [CityNameID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1), [CityName] [varchar] (30) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOI decide to add two new columns for the StateProvince and Country. What code should I use? See possible answers