Dwain Camps Using Stored Procedures to Provide an Application’s Business-Logic Layer When faced with a complex business application that had to be delivered with minimum staffing, on-time and within budget, Dwain's... 14 November 2014 44 min read
Feodor Georgiev SSIS 2012 Projects: Deployment Configurations and Monitoring The Project Deployment Model introduced in SSIS 2012, which was explained in the first part of this series, speeds up... 14 November 2014 7 min read
Robert Sheldon Questions About Using TSQL to Import Excel Data You Were Too Shy to Ask It is easy to import Excel data into database tables via TSQL, using OLEDB, either by the OPENROWSET function or... 05 November 2014 31 min read
William Brewer Database Configuration Management for SQL Server It is not just the rapid and painless testing, deployment and update of databases that requires care in the retention... 05 November 2014 16 min read
Feodor Georgiev SSIS 2012 Projects: Setup, Project Creation and Deployment It used to be that SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages had to be deployed individually. Now, they can be... 04 November 2014 7 min read
William Sisson Where in the Application Should Data Validation be Done? Whereabouts in the application should the business logic of data-validation checks be made? The advantages of a layered approach to... 04 November 2014 12 min read
Kalen Delaney Hekaton in 1000 Words The SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP engine (a.k.a. Hekaton) is a radical change for relational databases. This article, an exerpt... 22 October 2014 6 min read
Joshua Feierman The Mindset of the Enterprise DBA: Delegating Work A lot of the routine jobs demanded of a DBA can be automated, but a tougher prospect is to automate... 17 October 2014 19 min read
Scott Swanberg Exploring Your SQL Server Databases with T-SQL Most DBAs hoard their own favourite T-SQL scripts to help them with their work, often on a USB 'thumbdrive', but... 09 October 2014 40 min read
William Sisson Set-based Constraint Violation Reporting in SQL Server When you're importing data into an RDBMS in bulk and an exception condition is raised because of a constraint violation,... 07 October 2014 18 min read
Robert Sheldon Questions about Primary and Foreign Keys You Were Too Shy to Ask It is strange that one can ask simple questions about extended events or Hekaton at professional events and conferences without... 06 October 2014 36 min read
Edward Elliott Improving the Quality of SQL Server Database Connections in the Cloud To access SQL Server from the client, you use TDS protocol over TCP. This is fine over reliable LANs but... 22 September 2014 20 min read
Dwain Camps Filling In Missing Values Using the T-SQL Window Frame Since SQL Server delivered the entire range of window functions, there has been far less justification for using the non-standard... 18 September 2014 18 min read
Robert Sheldon Importing Excel Data into SQL Server Via SSIS: Questions You Were Too Shy to Ask The job of retrieving data from Excel, and importing it into SQL Server hasn't the same appeal or glamour as,... 11 September 2014 31 min read
Joshua Feierman The Mindset of the Enterprise DBA: Harnessing the Power of Automation After you have done the necessary groundwork of standardizing and centralizing your database administration processes, you are now in a... 02 September 2014 16 min read
Kathi Kellenberger SQL Server Reporting Services Basics: Customizing SSRS Reports While the Reporting Wizard and basic report tables will do for prototyping, very soon we'll want to add some finesse... 27 August 2014 23 min read
Robert Sheldon Questions about T-SQL Expressions You Were Too Shy to Ask Nobody seems to ask questions about SQL Expressions in forums, even though expressions can cause all sorts of problems. Even... 13 August 2014 43 min read
Joshua Feierman The Mindset of the Enterprise DBA: 8 Ways To Centralize Your Work Although it is possible to provide good service to small to medium companies as a DBA without putting in place... 12 August 2014 10 min read
Phil Factor Quickly Investigating What’s in the Tables of SQL Server Databases From SQL Server Management Studio it is difficult to look through the first few rows of a whole lot of... 12 August 2014 27 min read
Matthew Skelton Common database deployment blockers and Continuous Delivery headaches Deployability is now a first class concern for databases, so why isn't it as easy as it should be? Matthew... 06 August 2014 17 min read
