| SQL Services Hot Tip: So what does the SSIS Service do? 01 Jul 2010 |
| Microsoft Integration Services (SSIS) is a platform for building enterprise-level data integration and data transformations solutions. You use Integration Services to solve complex business problems by... |
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| Microsoft Support Lifecycle - new retirement dates! 21 Jun 2010 |
| Here are a couple of dates in 2011 to be mindful of:
SQL Server 7.0 has an Extended Retirement date of 11 January 2011.
SQL Server 2005 has Mainstream Retirement date of 12 April 2011.
This makes the... |
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| SQL Services Hot Tip: Oracle 10g Query Tuning 28 Apr 2010 |
| Have you ever had a query that was written on the fly by an application and found it to be very slow or killing your database? The only way to get around this in the past was to inform the application... |
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| Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform now launched Down-under! 16 Apr 2010 |
Microsoft has launched it's Azure cloud platform in Australia, with New Zealand launch due next week.
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| SQL Server Price Increase 16 Apr 2010 |
From May 2010, SQL Server is having a price increase:
25% increase for Standard Edition SQL Per Processor (Servers and CAL pricing unchanged)
15% increase for Enterprise Edition... |
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| Employee of the Month of March 12 Apr 2010 |
The employee of the Month of March is Adam, Team Leader of Team North.
Employee of the Month is decided by all staff.
Nominations received for Adam were:
- “For putting in an immense...
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| Employee of the Month of February 02 Mar 2010 |
The employee of the Month of February is Darren, a SQL Server DBA in Team South.
Employee of the Month is decided by all staff.
Nominations received for Darren were:
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| SQL Services Conversion of Microsoft Access to Microsoft SQL Server 02 Mar 2010 |
| Microsoft Access is prevalent in many organisations, up to and including enterprise level. Often commencing life as an unofficial, minor department level database with one or two users, and growing over... |
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| Employee of the Month of January 2010 03 Feb 2010 |
The first employee of the Month of 2010 is Tracey, Senior Consultant based in Wellington.
Employee of the Month is decided by all staff.
Nominations received for Tracey were “as I have had... |
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| 400 years experience 18 Jan 2010 |
| SQL Services technical staff have a combined total of 394 years industry experience.
Calculated over 31 individuals, that is an average of nearly 13 years experience per person.
Your data is in safe... |
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