A Review of SQL Refactor
Longtime author Dinesh Asanka takes a look at one of the new tools on the market, SQL Refactor from Red Gate.
Saving a Sales Order Part 1
How many times have you tried to save a sales order to your database? For many DBAs this is a common scenario and one of the challenges is the many round trips for the various line items. Jacob Sebastian brings us the first part of a four part series looking at how you can use XML to reduce the round trips in SQL Server 2000.
How To Video: Creating a Proxy Account
In this session by Brian Knight, he shows you how to create a proxy account for SQL Server Agent to use. Proxy accounts and SQL Server 2005 credentials help you impersonate another Windows account in Agent.
SQL Server Spotlight on Sameer Tejani
The people that develop SQL Server are very interesting in addition to being some of the top software developers around. Steve Jones
continues with his look behind the development team with an interview with Sameer Tejani.
A Discount on SQLMaestro
SQLMaestro has a new version and is offering a discount to SQLServerCentral.com members.
SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - Part 44 - Bulk Insert Task
Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services have discussed individual Control Flow tasks. This installment covers one of the few remaining items in this category, the Bulk Insert task.
Are you ready for Data Warehouses?
Data warehousing is being used more and more everyday and longtime data warehouse DBA Janet Wong brings us a short look at
her first project and some thoughts about warehousing in general.
Introduction to Data Warehousing Part 1
In Part 1 of this extensive series, Wes Dumey starts some of the core concepts of data warehousing. In this video he covers what a data warehouse is, why companies use them and what are some of the key components.
More Problems with Data Warehousing
In response to the first part, new author Richard Gardner brings us a few more issues that you should be aware of when planning
your data warehouse.
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Backup to Immutable Storage
In SQL Server 2025, a backup can be made on Azure Immutable Storage. What changes in how the backup is created?
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