Robyn Page's crib sheet was a Simple-Talk classic, providing a terse but thorough roadmap of all of the important SQL Server backup-related considerations. It returns, newly revised for SQL Server 2014.

Big Data - Cost of acquiring skills

by David Poole

SQLServerCentral.com

Big Data

If your companies first foray into Big Data project starts with a big cheque then you are doing it wrong!

Call Me, Maybe

by Rodney-Landrum

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Rodney Landrum on his week of responding nicely to unsolicited sales calls.

SQL Server 2014 Key Features and Enhancements

by Suresh Yaram

SQLServerCentral.com

in-memory oltp

SQL Server 2014 comes with a set of enhancements as compared to its processors that brings a lot of business benefits to the applications in OLTP and OLAP environments. This articles highlights a few key enhancements that are built into the product.

SQL Server Reporting Services Embedding .NET Code for Report Formatting and Error Handling

by Additional Articles

MSSQLTips.com

Error Handling

I want to embed code into my SQL Server Reporting Servers (SSRS) to allow special formatting for report output. How do I implement and deploy this code and what functionality can use this embedded code?

Paging Doctor Powershell

by Zach Mattson

SQLServerCentral.com

SQL Server

Use Powershell to create a single script that checks over your server and every SQL instance on it to help pinpoint problems.

SQL Saturday #285 Atlanta

by Press Release

SQL Saturday

Events

SQL Saturday will come to Atlanta on May 3, 2014. This is a free, full-day event of SQL Server training and networking. SQL Saturday #285 also has 3 (paid for) pre-con sessions available run by Kalen Delaney, Teo Lachev, and Denny Cherry. Make sure to register for SQL Saturday while spaces are available.

The DBA Detective: Disturbing Developments

by Additional Articles

SimpleTalk

Database Administrator

Originally one of the articles in the first DBA Team series, Grant wonders what Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett would have done if asked to write technical articles for Simple-Talk. He came up with the DBA detective, hard-boiled Joe Dee Beay.

How to create an SSIS conditional data flow task

by Stan Kulp

SQLServerCentral.com

Integration Services (SSIS)

This article demonstrates how to selectively channel records from a flat-file data source to separate destination tables in an SSIS package using a combination of multicast, data-conversion and conditional-split data flow transformation elements within a data flow task.