How to compare two databases and email the results to every one who needs to know

SQL Overview SSIS Package III - Full Package

by David Bird

SQLServerCentral.com

Integration Services (SSIS)

Continuing on with his series on reporting for your SQL Server, David Bird brings together the series with the full package used for building the report.s

Stuck in a Rut

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

What do people do when their job doesn't require a lot of technical skills? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.

Data Mining Part 19: Excel and Data Mining, Samples, Queries

by Daniel Calbimonte

SQLServerCentral.com

This lesson explains how to Clean Data, Explore Data, get Samples of Data, Classify and query a Data Mining Model.

Data Mining Part 19: Excel and Data Mining, Samples, Queries

by Daniel Calbimonte

SQLServerCentral.com

This lesson explains how to Clean Data, Explore Data, get Samples of Data, Classify and query a Data Mining Model.

Triple Digits

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Salaries for data professionals have risen quite a bit, according to the latest salary survey. That's good for those of us working with SQL Server.

Data Is Crazier than You Think

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SimpleTalk

As a society, we have an unrealistic respect for data, especially if it has a decimal point somewhere and uses metric units. We who are in the business of data need to cultivate a renewed interest in the sceptical and rigorous science of statistics: it is too important to leave to 'Data Scientists'. If the data is wrong, or the way we analyse or report it is misleading, much of what we do is pointless.

SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Average I/O Stalls

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Redgate

SQL Monitor

This metric is a great general indicator of performance problems. High stall times indicate I/O problems, which can be attributed to busy physical disks or queries that return large data sets to the client.

Dynamically change background color in SSRS reports using custom code

by Stan Kulp

SQLServerCentral.com

Reporting Services (SSRS)

This article demonstrates the use of custom code and cell expressions referencing that custom code to toggle the background color of groups of rows in an SSRS report based upon value-changes in one of the fields.