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by David Leibowitz | 25 November 2007 |

13 comments |

In SQL Reporting Services, the native Matrix control provides a crosstab view of data, similar in behavior to a PivotTable in MS Excel. Rows and columns will have intersecting points of data which is often useful in time based reporting . David Liebowitz shows you... Read more...

Reporting at the Top

by David Leibowitz | 26 October 2007 |

6 comments |

In Reporting Services, It is not difficult to provide flexible grouping and to display the detail records in a drill-down on-demand method. It is more difficult to combine custom ranking and aggregations on filtered table groups in table based reports. David... Read more...

Logon Triggers

by Cristian Lefter | 10 October 2007 |

6 comments |

Login Triggers were quietly introduced in SP2 to tighten up the security features of SQL Server to comply with the latest industry standards for security. But you can meet a lot of the security requirements even without them! Read more...

SQL Server 2005 DDL Trigger Workbench

by Robyn Page and Phil Factor | 25 May 2007 |

27 comments |

Robun and Phil's latest workbench shows you how to track and log all database changes, including changes to tables, logins, users and queues, using SQL 2005 DDL triggers. Read more...

How to Read Raw Files in SSIS

by Simon Sabin | 01 May 2007 |

10 comments |

Creating a Custom Content Formatter for SSNS 2005

by Joe Webb | 24 April 2007 |

The built-in components for SQL 2005 Notification Services are ideal for use with notifications that are flat in structure. However, if you want to send notifications that are more hierarchical in structure, such as an order detail confirmation letter complete with... Read more...

Partitioned Tables in SQL Server 2005

by Nigel Rivett | 16 April 2007 |

33 comments |

Nigel Rivett provides an in-depth, practical examination of how to create and manipulate partitioned tables and indexes in SQL 2005. Read more...

Quick Tip: Performing an FTP rename in a SSIS script task

by Nigel Rivett | 17 January 2007 |

17 comments |

Nigel Rivett provides a technique for moving files from one FTP directory to another, and for performing this processing from SQL Server Integration Services. Read more...

Encryption without the Confusion

by Eric Brown | 29 November 2006 |

9 comments |

Eric Brown demonstrates some practical encryption techniques in SQL Server 2005, to protect both your objects and your data. Read more...

SQL Server 2005 SSIS: Tuning the Dataflow Task

by Kirk Haselden | 23 October 2006 |

16 comments |

Learn how to get maximum performance out of the dataflow task with an extract from Kirk Haselden's popular book on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. Read more...

Fine Tuning your Database Design in SQL 2005

by Sanchan Sahai Saxena | 10 October 2006 |

147 comments |

Sanchan Saxena gets to grips with the new index-tuning tools and features in SQL 2005. Read more...

Executing SSIS Packages

by Nigel Rivett | 30 August 2006 |

51 comments |

Nigel Rivett demonstrates how to execute all SSIS packages in a given folder using either an SSIS control package, a stored procedure or a DOS batch file. Read more...

Building Effective SQL Server Notification Applications Part 2

by Joe Webb | 17 August 2006 |

1 comment |

Joe Webb provides a guided tour of his top ten favorite enhancements to SQL 2005 Notification Services. Read more...

SQL Server, PostgresSQL and Fish Curry

by Tony Davis | 16 August 2006 |

10 comments |

An interview with Adam Machanic, discussing hot new features of SQL 2005, stored procedures, fish curry and more Read more...

Using and Monitoring SQL 2005 Query Notification

by Sanchan Sahai Saxena | 11 August 2006 |

39 comments |

Query notification allows your applications to take advantage of caching, safe in the knowledge that the cache will be refreshed whenever any critical data in the underlying database is updated. Find out how it all works... Read more...

SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions

by Nigel Rivett | 02 August 2006 |

43 comments |

Common Table Expressions (CTEs) are one of the most exciting features to be introduced with SQL Server 2005. Nigel Rivett explains what they are and how they can be used. Read more...

Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2005, Part 1

by Dejan Sarka | 18 July 2006 |

31 comments |

From ad-hoc queries through managed reports to report models, Dejan Sarka evaluates SQL Server 2005 reporting solutions. Read more...

Building Effective SQL Server Notification Applications Part I

by Joe Webb | 10 April 2006 |

SQL Server Notification Services provides a powerful framework for developing and hosting notification applications and the 2005 version comes with a host of new features designed to make our lives, as developers and administrators of notification systems, a bit easier. Read more...

Practical SQL Server 2005 CLR Assemblies

by Julian Skinner | 28 February 2006 |

5 comments |

One advantage of CLR assemblies is the ability to consume web services from within the database. This wouldn’t be easy with T-SQL, and would also require a lot of work in an unmanaged extended stored procedure. With .NET, it’s almost as simple as accessing a local DLL. Read more...

Beginning SQL Server 2005 XML Programming

by Srinivas Sampath | 21 February 2006 |

31 comments |

XML has been used to represent semi-structured (as well as unstructured) data such as documents and emails. If information in these models has to be queried, then XML is probably the simplest way to represent such information. Read more...

DTS to SSIS Migration

by Allan Mitchell | 18 November 2005 |

24 comments |

Determining how you will upgrade your DTS packages to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is the first step in creating a DTS-to-SSIS migration strategy. Read more...