Using PowerShell to Manage Windows Azure SQL Databases
Marcin Policht provides a comprehensive overview of Windows PowerShell’s capabilities in regard to managing SQL Databases (or, in general, cloud-resident resources).
Access Disdain
Today Andy Warren looks back at his career with Access and why he doesn't see it as a tool to be avoided.
Developing a Custom SSIS Source Component
SSIS was designed to be extensible.Although you can create tasks that will take data from a wide variety of sources, transform the data is a number of ways and write the results a wide choice of destinations, using the components provided, there will always be occasions when you need to customise your own SSIS component.
Automate Registering and Maintaining Servers in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
This tip looks at how to use a control file that lists the structure to use within SSMS and a PowerShell script that will automatically maintain the list of registered servers within SSMS.
SQL Saturday #302 - Albany
SQL Saturday is coming to Albany, NY on July 26, 2014. This is a free full day of training and networking for SQL Server professionals. This event also features a paid-for precon session with Grant Fritchey on query performance tuning. The event is soon so register while space is available.
Implementation of partition switching within SSIS
In the third part of a series on loading a partitioned data warehouse efficiently, we see how SSIS can be used to perform the ETL tasks.
Not Good Enough For Government Work
The complexity of financial trading systems is too much for an amateur approach, as the losses of various Bitcoin exchanges show.
Version Control as a Cloud Service
Robert Sheldon wonders if cloud-based version control still too risky for a service that must be secure, and risk-free?
Data Mining: Part 11 XMLA and the automation
In this lesson we will learn the basis about XMLA and we will execute the command line to create DM objects.
Blogs
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
Why Database AI Agents need Layers?
By Arun Sirpal
Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
Un-Migrating From the Cloud: T-SQL Tuesday #199
By Steve Jones
This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments Level 4 – Preparing for Production Deployment
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Secure Communications
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Question of the Day
Secure Communications
As of June 2026, what is the best version of TLS to use with SQL Server?
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