The CV Detectives
You may find this shocking, but some IT people lie on their CV. Richard Morris offers a rare glimpse into the dark underworld of the people tasked with rooting out the CV fraudsters.
Who Do You Want To Hire?
Most of us don't get to make hiring decisions, whether we're interviewing or helping to interview someone. However we often have input on new employees. Steve Jones brings us some thoughts on helping to make the hiring decision.
Toying with template parameters in SQL Server 2005
If you create functions or stored procedures from SQL Server 2005 Management Studio, you will notice that the new window is filled with a template. In general, you get a skeleton interspersed with markers. This article discusses how you can use templates.
SoftArtisans OfficeWriter:Reporting Services Integration
A new product from SoftArtisans makes it easy for Reporting Services users to work in their familiar Word and Excel environments. Longtime author Jonathan Spink brings us a review of this software.
SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm
With the release of SQL Server 2005, the paradigm of working with this database changed. Robert Pearl brings us a book review of the highly acclaimed book from one of the premier SQL Server consulting companies in the US: Scalability Experts.
Zap World
Steve Jones brings us a car update that talks about a new car that doesn't need gasoline to run.
Storage Modes in SSAS 2005
Analysis Services and business intelligence are new structures for most of the SQL Server world. BI expert Yaniv Mor brings us another article on Analysis Services, this time explaining the various different options for storing your cube data.
Kimball University: Four Fixes Refurbish Legacy Data Warehouses
DW/BI professionals are often tasked with making evolutionary upgrades and improvements to minimize cost and upheaval in the current analytic environment. We explore four upgrades that can breathe new life into legacy data warehouses.
Analysis of SQL Server Performance Data
Gathering performance data on your servers can be a cumbersome task without paying for an expensive tool. New author Jambu Krishnamurthy brings us a short tutorial on how you can gather this data from Perfmon and import it into SQL Server for reporting.
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
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
How to Connect to SQL Server When Nothing Else Works – DAC
By gbargsley
It's 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can't connect to the application,...
Get a Range of Sequence Values: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
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that one limitation in replication
Hi as shown below a replication target requires a primary key. if we want...
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Question of the Day
Detecting Deadlocks
By default, how often is the SQL Server Database Engine checking for deadlocks?
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