SQL Server Spotlight on Steve Schmidt
Steve Schmidt, the backup guy for SQL Server, spent a few minutes talking about his work on SQL Server and life. A look at another very interesting member of the SQL Server development team.
Clustering SSIS
By default, SSIS is not an easily cluster-aware product. In this video, Brian shows you how to cluster the service and make it highly available.
Time for Training
Keeping up with your professional development is tough. In the first part of his series, Andy Warren talked about the challenges of keeping current. This article takes a look at how you can effectively find time to grow your career.
Jazz Up Your Data Using Custom Report Items In SQL Server Reporting Se
This article discusses: Extensibility in SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, Creating and debugging custom report items, The ProgressTracker CRI sample.
Email Changes
We've changed the way we send email for the newsetters. Read about our new address and whitelisting.
Reporting v Editing
In response to his article on using Reporting Services to manage rights, Jonathan Spink takes a look at how Reporting Services can be positioned in your enterprise.
Speak Like a T-SQL Developer
In this video by Kathi Kellenberger, she starts beginners interested in T-SQL programming the teminology and some of the basiics of T-SQL. She also covers the what the various editions of SQL Server mean and the tools that you will use.
Identifying Unused Objects in a Database
Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich answers one of the most common questions seen in discussion areas around the world: how do you identify unused objects?
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Message Queue Task - Part 32
After concluding a broad overview of various aspects of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, part 32 of this series focuses on individual components that have more specialized, but very useful characteristics, starting by discussing the Message Queue Control Flow task, and following with coverage of a number of Data Flow transformations.
Detroit Area SQL Server User Group
The next meeting of the Detroit Area SQL Server User Group is September 14th.
Blogs
Reading SQL Server File Headers with DBCC FILEHEADER
I’ve been doing a deep dive into SQL Server on-disk structures lately, and one...
T-SQL Tuesday #197 – An impactful session or two from a conference – RECAP
By DataOnWheels
Thanks to everyone who joined the blog party this month. I noticed three themes...
OpenClaw- Agentic Engineering
By Vinay Thakur
This week has training on AI – Cyber security experts – Omar Santos and...
Forums
Rethinking How We Approach Assignment Help
Assignments aren’t just tasks to submit—they’re opportunities to build understanding, discipline, and problem-solving skills....
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Interesting Changes in R
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences V
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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