Apress, one of the premier techincal publishers, is releasing quite a few titles based on SQL Server 2005. They've agreed to sponsor our Question of the Day and give away some books. Read how you can win and what they're offering.
Mapping services have become quite popular on the Internet and with many applications, but in order to use these, you need to map an address to a latitude and longtitude. Corey Bunch brings us a CLR example of how you can do this.
In this article, adapted from the just-published second edition of MDX Solutions that Chris co-authored with George Spofford, Siva Harinath, Dylan Hai Huang, and Francesco Civardi, Chris shows us how to start exploring the world of cubes and MDX Scripts.
A Friday distraction from work when you have time. Can you figure out who has the dual 19" LCD monitors?
When architects speak with database administrators, it is important they come forearmed. Tools can help. While Microsoft's own database management tools cover the most common database administration scenarios, they don't do anything about some of the most common pain points faced when you need to maintain and deploy SQL Server databases for projects under active development. That's where Red Gate comes in.
Phonetic matching, working on finding terms that are misspelled, is an art and there are a number of ways to handle it. In SQL Server 2000 the tools are limited, but Michael Coles brings us part 3 of his toolkit with some handy functions that can help you with text searching.
There is a world of difference between the business processes that really take place in a company and the management's understanding of those processes…
Ensuring the availability of your database servers is becoming more important all the time. Fortunately you have more choices than ever. Bilal Ahmed looks at some of the possible solutions available for SQL Server.
A SQL Server 2005 feature that I appreciate and want to demonstrate is the OUTPUT clause. The OUTPUT clause helps in returning the actual data from a table soon after an insert. Applications require return values such as the new identity value, the computed column value or the default value generated by the default constraint.
The third part of a great data warehousing series from Vincent Rainardi looks different methods of extracting data from the source system along with the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) has recently added support for Github Copilot. This is...
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