Setup SSIS Catalog Retention Policy and Partial Cleanup Strategy
Learn how you can configure clean and size management for your SSIS catalog database.
Using Parameters with Stored Procedures
It seems that SQL Server developers avoid stored procedures whenever possible, especially if they are new to the product. Kathi Kellenberger brings us a basic article that you can give to developers that explains the basics of how you use parameters with ADO.NET, especially output parameters.
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Solving the Running Total and Ordinal Rank Problems (Rewritten)
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Stairway to T-SQL DML Level 4: The Mathematics of SQL: Part 1
A relational database contains tables that relate to each other by key values. When querying data from these related tables you may choose to select data from a single table or many tables. If you select data from many tables, you normally join those tables together using specified join criteria. The concepts of selecting data from tables and joining tables together is all about managing and manipulating sets of data. In Level 4 of this Stairway we will explore the concepts of set theory and mathematical operators to join, merge, and return data from multiple SQL Server tables.
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SCOM is good at monitoring the status of your servers. SQL Monitor give you a detailed view of your SQL Server instances, and databases, right across your network, however they are hosted. By using tools appropriately, for the tasks they do well, you benefit from a simpler and more comprehensive overall strategy.
SQL Server Subquery in Select Statement with Where Clause
In this part of the temporary data store tip series we look at using subqueries to select data as well as how to use for inserts, updates and deletes.
DBA Walkthrough – Adding space on IBM AIX Power Machines
Learn how to manage storage/filesystems on IBM AIX - Power machines. Learn from this demo of expanding a filesytem on AIX so that your DBA's get a high level overview of how AIX storage management works.
No State Based Deployments
Today Steve Jones talks about deploying your database changes, and how you can't ever really depend on a state based approach.
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Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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