Author: Ben Taylor

Editorials

Are You Ready for Some Football?

New SQL Server Video Show Posted! SelectViews: Index Fragmentation, Import Options, Data/Time Conversions, DBA Data Validation Thoughts. Also, upcoming events, a look at SQL Server 2008, current release versions, noise and news and much more. [Watch Show] Featured Article(s) How to Calculate the Number of Business Days in a Month This article describes a simple function that can be used […]

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Index Fragmentation, SQL Server 2008 Demo, New Show Ready to Watch

New SQL Server Video Show Posted! SelectViews: Index Fragmentation, Import Options, Data/Time Conversions, DBA Data Validation Thoughts. Also, upcoming events, a look at SQL Server 2008, current release versions, noise and news and much more. [Watch Show] Featured Article(s) Oracle 2-Day DBA in x Days Post 11; Oracle Physical Storage Structures This article takes a look at the physical storage […]

Editorials

Index Fragmentation, SQL Server 2008 Demo, New Show Ready to Watch

New SQL Server Video Show Posted! SelectViews: Index Fragmentation, Import Options, Data/Time Conversions, DBA Data Validation Thoughts. Also, upcoming events, a look at SQL Server 2008, current release versions, noise and news and much more. [Watch Show] Featured Article(s) Oracle 2-Day DBA in x Days Post 11; Oracle Physical Storage Structures This article takes a look at the physical storage […]

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SQL Server 2008 Released

Build Your Data Warehouse in the Cloud Start leveraging the technologies, accessibility and capacity of cloud-based systems. the BI Cloud is an on-demand data warehouse system that uses a distributed database clustering technology. You won’t have to worry about scalability or uptime issues again – and you can focus on providing a great Data Warehouse solution. Get more information here! […]

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SQL Server 2008 Released

Build Your Data Warehouse in the Cloud Start leveraging the technologies, accessibility and capacity of cloud-based systems. the BI Cloud is an on-demand data warehouse system that uses a distributed database clustering technology. You won’t have to worry about scalability or uptime issues again – and you can focus on providing a great Data Warehouse solution. Get more information here! […]

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Automation of Data Source Validation

Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 User-Defined Functions In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you work with SQL Server 2005 user-defined functions. He also tells how you can resolve these problems. Watch the Latest SQL Server Video Program SQL Server 2008 Features: Chris Shaw takes a look at some of the new features […]

Editorials

Automation of Data Source Validation

Featured Article(s) Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 User-Defined Functions In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you work with SQL Server 2005 user-defined functions. He also tells how you can resolve these problems. Watch the Latest SQL Server Video Program SQL Server 2008 Features: Chris Shaw takes a look at some of the new features […]

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Data Chain of Evidence

Real-Time Monitoring, Diagnostics, Tuning… …for your SQL Server and Windows Server metrics. Find out about real-time information, historical reporting, performance and diagnostics information and a whole lot more. SQL Sentry Performance Advisor brings a new, killer tool that you can use to dig into and keep track of your servers. Check it out – it may be just the ticket […]

Editorials

Data Chain of Evidence

Real-Time Monitoring, Diagnostics, Tuning… …for your SQL Server and Windows Server metrics. Find out about real-time information, historical reporting, performance and diagnostics information and a whole lot more. SQL Sentry Performance Advisor brings a new, killer tool that you can use to dig into and keep track of your servers. Check it out – it may be just the ticket […]

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Editorial Thoughts for Today

Featured Article(s) How to determine membership in Windows Groups using T-SQL I lead a recent serverdatabase migration from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005. Several of my team were supposed to be added to a Windows group that was to have been granted access to the new SQL Server. We tested their access and they were not able to […]