As server-side .NET development becomes more prevalent, Application Performance Management tools are becoming available to fine-tune .NET applications. And, as in the past, it seems that the ability to build new and more sophisticated applications always stays ahead of the ability to manage them.
While the strength of SQL Server is not in string manipulation, it can be very handy when backing a web site to be able to automatically include links for some of your content. New author Grey Wilson brings us an easy technique to easily deliver results to developers with URLs embedded inside.
Learn ETL solutions from SQL Server MVP Brian Knight at the SQLServerCentral.com training center.
In this session, you'll learn the basics on how to deploy an SSIS package to the package store. You'll learn the benefits of whether to use the MSDB database or file system to store yoru packages and how to use configuration files to simplify migrations.
No developer or DBA wants to be told how to write their code. Everyone has their own style, but this can cause problems in a team environment where different people need to work on the same section of code. New author Pam Abdulla brings us a few simple techniques that can help you write more maintainable code.
A sub-query is a SQL Server statement embedded inside of another SQL Server statement. The database engine treats a sub-query as a virtual table for the execution of the query. A sub-query can be used as a table in a join statement, as a single value in a select statement, in the where clause of a SQL Server query, in the having clause of a SQL Server query, or incorporated in data manipulation statements.
So, you're a Microsoft SQL Server administrator flirting with open source, but you're not sure how far you should go on the first migration? Don't worry, there won't be much peer pressure to go "all the way." Look around and you'll find that most businesses making the switch are going only as far as their Web applications.
After he worked on the XML features of SQL Server 2005, he has moved on to Reporting Services. John Gallardo is an interesting person with a variety of thoughts on XML and more.
A colleague working on an Informix database needed to search TEXT columns using wildcards. While Informix supports wildcards in LIKE and MATCH predicates, this support does not include TEXT columns. The obvious solution—to export the data to SQL Server—does support such searches.
Auditing is becoming more important all the time for DBAs as regulations and requirements increase. Building auditing into your systems can be done a number of ways, but with SQL Server 2005, you have a new option. New author David Ziffer brings us a generic auditing CLR trigger.
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