Incommunicado
Communication is important, and it's a real problem when people can't reach you. Read about an interesting phone accident the some hints for better communication.
TSQL Lab I - Playing around with ROW_NUMBER
Real world solutions are key and having different techniques can sometimes help you code quicker. Longtime author Jacob Sebastian shows us how to solve a few problems with different techniques.
Populating Dimension Tables with the SCD Task
ETLing dimensions through SQL Server 2000 DTS, has more or less been quite a hassle, what with the lengthy ActiveX scripts and lookups that have to be performed. Enter SQL Server 2005 Integration Services: The Slowly Changing Dimension task has made it much simpler.
Snapshot Reports I: Report Manager Perspective
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his subseries surrounding Caching Options, examining the use of Report Manager to configure Snapshot Caching.
Data Breaches
Security is hard, but are we doing a good job? Steve Jones shares a few thoughts on our security development practices
Trigger Trivia
From SQL Server trainer and guru Andy Warren, he are a few short nuggets that you might not realize about triggers.
SQL Server Management Objects: Lessons from the Wild
Harness the power of SQL Server Management Objects to create, document, and manage your SQL Server databases.
SqlCredit – Part 10: MAC Performance and Updating SqlCredit
This month's installment of "Developing a Complete SQL Server OLTP Database Project" covers MAC performance results, a summary of encryption findings, and comments on updating the SqlCredit code based on those findings.
Cleaning Address Data with SSIS Using a Web Service
This article describes how to call a web service to clean up address data from within a data flow.
Quick Hits on the News for Nov 12, 2007
A few comment on the database news for the week ending 11/10/07
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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