DTS to SSIS Migration
Determining how you will upgrade your DTS packages to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the first step in creating a DTS-to-SSIS migration strategy.
DTS Polling
Lots of packages exist that will import data files for you, even if you do not know the file name ahead of time. But most of them expect the files to be there. New author Andre Quitta brings us a technique he has for checking to see if the files are even there before importing them.
Secrets of successful IT projects
Some time ago, I worked on a team that was attempting to define an IT strategy for a large multinational company. Management incorrectly thought the company was unique in that it had a high number of failed IT projects. In fact, only one in four IT projects can be termed successful, if the benchmarks of success are adherence to scheduled completion time and budget, and realization of the project goal, whether that be saving money, growing the business, or what have you. I have to explain this because many of you may never have come across one.
An Elegant ETL Solution: Except for Lost Data
An early adopter of SQL Server 2005 found some issues with Integration Services. And he shows how it was debugged and the issue solved. This is a great look at some of the helpful parts of Intration Services in solving problems as well as a few places it falls short.
SQL 2000 Replication Architecture
New author! Mahesh presents a solid overview of the replication architecture of SQL 2000.
Using SQL Server 2005 sqlcmd Utility
SQL Server 2005 provides some new command line utilities. One such utility is "sqlcmd". The sqlcmd utility is used to run adhoc queries interactively from a command prompt window, or can be used to execute a script containing T-SQL statements. The sqlcmd utility is a great improvement over osql and isql of older releases of SQL Server. In this article, I will explain some of the features this new command line utility brings to administering SQL Server.
XML Indexes in SQL Server 2005
Use the relational query engine in SQL Server 2005 to make a single query plan for the SQL and XQuery parts of your queries, and make the implementation of XML queries fast and easy to predict and tune.
SQLDBControl BETA Testers Wanted
A new product has just been released in Beta to help you with source control for your SQL Server development. Beta testers are wanted, so if you're interested, read on.
Starting and Stopping SQL Server Part 2
Continuing with his series, Andy Warren looks at what it means for SQL Server 2000 to run as a service and some of the options you have for starting, stopping, and restarting your server.
SQL Server Notification Services Architecture
Most SQL Server 2000 DBAs have heard of Notification Services, but are they aware of how it works and what it's capabilities are? This is a great platform on which to build any type of messaging/notification/subscription application. New author and PASS board member Joe Webb brings us a look at this add on for SQL Server.
Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
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Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
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Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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