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Data Transformation Services vs. SSIS: The key differences

I recently published an article on SearchSQLServer.com about DTS and SSIS where I talk about some of the differences.  Obvsiolly I didn’t cover all the differences between DTS and SSIS, just some of them.  So don’t go railing on me that I didn’t cover something.

Denny

Clearing the Windows page file and its effect on server performance

I just published a new article over on SearchSQLServer.com about “Clearing the Windows page file and its effect on server performance“.  In the article I talk about the pros and cons of telling Windows to clear out the page file when the server is rebooted.

Denny

Push vs. pull: Configuring SQL Server replication

I’ve published a new artcile over on SearchSQLServer.com.  This article is titled “Push vs. pull: Configuring SQL Server replication“.  In this article I talk about the differences between the two, and when each should be used, as well as how to combine them to get the best of both.

Denny

Setting up SQL Server Service Broker for secure communication

Today a new article that I wrote was posted up on SearchSQLServer.com.

The article is about setting up SQL Service Broker to use Certificates to secure the traffic between the instances.

Denny

Article: Testing a SQL Server environment before an upgrade

I just published another article up on SearchSQLServer.com.  This one is entitled Testing a SQL Server environment before an upgrade.  In it I talk about some successes and some failures that I’ve seen when upgrading SQL Server versions and how the failures could have been avoided.

Processing XML files with SQL Server functions

I just published a new article on SearchSQLServer.com called Processing XML files with SQL Server functions.

In this article I talk about how to get data from XML files on disk into the SQL Server, and then provide examples on how to use OPENXML to turn the XML data into tabular data so that you can use it within SQL Server.

Denny