An Interview with Ralph Kimball
Ralph Kimball, founder of The Kimbaal Group, shares some thoughts on data with PASS.
2004-11-08
2,508 reads
Articles
Divide and Conquer
This is the first article by Steve Jones that examines a programming technique for handling operations that may be too large to run in a single query.
2004-11-05 (first published: 2001-05-09)
19,393 reads
SQL Server 2005 Partitioned Tables and Indexes
Although partitioning tables and indexes has always been a design tactic chosen to improve performance and manageability in larger databases, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has new features that simplify the design. This whitepaper describes the logical progression from manually partitioning data by creating your own tables to the preliminary features, which enabled partitioning through views in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000, to the true partitioned table features available in SQL Server 2005. In SQL Server 2005, the new table-based partitioning features significantly simplify design and administration of partitioned tables while continuing to improve performance.
2004-11-05
3,625 reads
TeraTrax Offers The SQLServerCentral.com a 15% Discount
Teratrax, maker of SQL Server products, is offering the SQLServerCentral.com community a 15% discount on their products.
2004-11-04
2,474 reads
Unified Database Toolkit - Scheduling
SQL Server has a great scheduling system in SQLAgent. But sometimes SQLAgent won't work or isn't available. Author Andre Vigneau has built a solid system for auomtating the management of SQL Server, one that he deploys with the software that his company sells. Read about the basics of this system and get some code that might come in handy for you.
2004-11-04
5,873 reads
WebService - Enabling SQL Server 2005 Procedures
One of the most interesting features that I'll explore is that you can now create WebServices in the database tier directly, without resorting to "add ons" or even the use of IIS at all. One of the many extensions to Transact SQL is the new CREATE ENDPOINT statement, which allows the developer to create an endpoint directly from SQL Server 2005, which hooks right into the Kernel Mode HTTP.SYS driver, exposing functions and stored procedures written either in T-SQL or native CLR methods/classes.
2004-11-04
3,131 reads
Basics of C2 Auditing
Auditing in SQL Server is something that is becoming more and more prevelant, and will likely become more regulated over time. Dinesh Asanka brings us a new article on the basics of SQL Servers most powerful auditing configuration, C2 level auditing.
2004-11-03
38,122 reads
XML Support in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
This article discusses the XML support built into SQL Server 2005. It shows how this support integrates with the client side programming support in the .NET Framework V2.0 and in native code such as OLEDB and SQLXML.
2004-11-03
1,352 reads
2004 SQLServerCentral.com Readers Choice Awards
Theyre back and expanded, the 2004 Readers Choice awards. Take a minute and vote now for the products and vendors you have enjoyed working with.
2004-11-02
3,314 reads
List of Database Users with Database Roles
SQL Server shows lots of information in Enterprise Manager, but getting a report for someone or manipulating this data is hard from the GUI. Using T-SQL, it's easier, but sometimes not obvious how to get the data. Author Santveer Singh brings us a way to get at some of that information, the users and their database roles.
2004-11-02
23,784 reads
Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
Cross-DB Ownership Chaining problem
We want to setup a gateway db to host stored procedures which use tables...
Lots of FKs
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Real-time On-prem SQL Server Data in Excel – Over the Internet
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Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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