Data Quality
What is data quality? How do you measure it and how does it affect your data warehouse? SQL Server warehousing expert Janet Wong brings us a look at what data quality is and what it means to you.
SQL Server 2005 – DML Usage on an untyped XML column
Learn how to use Data Manipulation Language, a set of statements used to store, retrieve, modify, and erase data from a database, for untyped XML columns.
Using and Monitoring SQL 2005 Query Notification
The aim of this article is to show you how to make full use of SQL 2005 query notification with ASP.NET 2.0. It tackles the implementation details largely from SQL Server's perspective and includes many DBA tips and tricks for troubleshooting query notification.
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.
Blogs
Walking Through a Planned Failover: SQL Server Availability Groups on Kubernetes
When building the sql-on-k8s-operator, I wanted to make sure it could handle both planned...
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...
Forums
The Vector Data Type
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What Power BI DirectQuery does to your SQL Server (and how to fix it)
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The New OS Wars
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The Vector Data Type
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