XML Options in Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Three options for handling XML data in the Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 environment are discussed, including usage scenarios and guidelines to help you choose between them. (34 printed pages)
Three options for handling XML data in the Visual Studio 2005/SQL Server 2005 environment are discussed, including usage scenarios and guidelines to help you choose between them. (34 printed pages)
Table-based partitioning features in SQL Server 2005 provide flexibility and performance to simplify the creation and maintenance of partitioned tables. Trace the progression of capabilities from logically and manually partitioning tables to the latest partitioning features, and find out why, when, and how to design, implement, and maintain partitioned tables using SQL Server 2005. (41 printed pages)
In this article, we will be giving you an overview of what the new interface looks like in SQL Server 2005.
TRY-CATCH blocks in T-SQL allow error detection and reporting in a construct similar to that used in VB .NET, C#, and C++. The specific focus here is how TRY-CATCH blocks are used in stored procedures and where there might be some surprises.
Venkat Prasad discusses some programming techniques for saving XML data from Microsoft SQL Servers, Web Servers, XML Web Services, and Microsoft SQL Reporting Servers. Topics include a comparison of traditional techniques used for saving XML streams, using ASP/ASPX and COM, with newer ones using .NET Framework Classes—datasets, XMLTextReaders and XMLTextWriters, XSLTransformation, saving data from SQL Reporting Servers, and uploading XML back to SQL Server. (15 printed pages).
Every organization has a system of weekly reboots or monthly reboots etc., for all their servers. When it comes to clustered servers, the reboot cycle would be little different. Usually the active node in the cluster will always be active, unless there is a failover initiated manually or when there is a hardware failure etc.
In this article, I am going to explain how to reboot cluster nodes.
This article discusses the challenges of merging unstructured data into BI systems and provides an example of such a merge to solve an organizational problem.
SQL Server 2005 has changed quite a bit about the way DBAs will work with SQL Server. One of the new tools is the SQLCMD utility that will replace isql and osql as the command line utility. Author Andre Vigneau brings us a first look at this new tool and how you can do a few neat tricks with it.
In this article, we continue our discussion on high availability and scalability enhancements in SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 release. Features such as clustering, database mirroring, online indexing, fast recovery, database snapshots, and snapshot isolation transaction level have already been covered earlier in this series - now we will concentrate on the remaining features, such as a new method of table and index partitioning, backup and restore improvements, and new hardware support options.
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