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.
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
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How to Check TDE Progress and Elapsed Time in SQL Server
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PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
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