Exotic Joins in T-SQL and How They Translate in SSIS
This is a short article on how to translate an exotic join or range lookup in SSIS (Integration Services) from Nick Maroudas.
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Employee compensation is more than just salary. Steve Jones talks about how you might look at building more effective compensation plans for workers.
Data Access Tracing in SQL Server 2005
Learn how to apply the new tracing functionality in Microsoft data access technologies such as ADO.NET 2.0, MDAC 2.82, SQL Server Native Client, and the JDBC driver; and in the SQL Server network protocols and the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine.
Determining SQL Server database storage requirements
Determine accurate storage requirements for a SQL Server database with these methods. Calculate how to set storage requirements for a database application.
Introduction to SSIS in SQL Server 2005
DTS was one of the true innovations in SQL Server 7. SQL Server 2000 greatly enhanced this tool and SQL Server 2005 makes it truly a programming environment, well beyond the ETL functions of DTS in SQL Server 2000. New author Vinod Kumar gives a brief introduction to this new environment.
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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