Determining the best performance value you can get for your effort is not as straightforward as you might think.

Red Gate Software to unveil Database Lifecycle Management at PASS Summit

by Press Release

Redgate

PASS attendees will get the chance to learn about Database Lifecycle Management (DLM) straight from its chief proponent: Red Gate Software, the database and .NET tooling company.

Format Durations in SQL Server Analysis Services

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MSSQLTips.com

Analysis Services (SSAS)

I have a fact table in my data warehouse that tracks durations of certain events as the total number of seconds that have passed. When users browse the cube, I’d like to show these durations formatted as time using the hh:mm:ss format. How can I do this in Analysis Services (SSAS)? - Koen Verbeeck responds.

The Geek Costume

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

This Friday Steve Jones has another fun poll. A question on the geek costume that might excite you the most.

Does NoSQL = NoDBA?

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SimpleTalk

There’s a joke doing the rounds at SQL conferences and seminars: three DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar and leave when they can’t find a table. You may have heard it before, but it made Matt Hilbert sit down and ponder. What’s happening? Is there a division opening up between the newly fashionable NoSQL followers and DBAs? Matt enters the world of NoSQL to investigate.

Automating Red Gate SQL Compare with MSSQL Server Agent

by Neil Burton

SQLServerCentral.com

Redgate Software

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