As part of my research with the University of Melbourne, I asked 55 attendees of advanced data modeling seminars in the US (25 attendees) and UK (30 attendees) to list the stages in database design, including data modeling.
The May issue of the SQL Server Standard is out and we're printing as you read this. This month we take a look at the Ovation Research Group.
In the final installment of his series, Michael Coles examines a few other functions in his SQL Server 2000 toolkit to help you with other functions, like reading a directory on your server. Read the series and send some feedback to make this THE premier toolset for SQL Server 2000 DBAs.
Download an updated version of Books Online for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the primary documentation for SQL Server 2005. The April 2006 update to Books Online contains new material and fixes to documentation problems reported by customers after SQL Server 2005 was released. Refer to "New and Updated Books Online Topics" for a list of topics that are new or updated in this version. Topics with significant updates have a Change History table at the bottom of the topic that summarizes the changes.
SQL Server 2005 has brought about many paradigm changes, including substantial changes to the SQL Server Agent subsystem. Dinesh Asanka takes a new look at roles and counters in 2005.
SQL Server Reporting Services makes it easy to build reports from database data, but what if the data isn't in a database? This article shows you how to take advantage of Reporting Services' unique extensibility model to build reports from ADO.NET datasets.
The fourth part of a great data warehousing series from Vincent Rainardi. This article continues the look are still other methods of extracting data from the source system along with the advantages and disadvantages of each.
SQL Full-text Search (SQL FTS) is an optional component of SQL Server 7 and later, which allows fast and efficient querying when you have large amounts of unstructured data. This is the first of a two-part article that explores the full-text language features that ship with SQL Server versions 7, 2000, and 2005, with particular focus on the new language features in SQL 2005.
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.
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In thinking about the differences between the identity property and a sequence object, which of these two guarantees that there are consecutive numbers (according to the increment) inserted in a single table?
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