With the SQL Server Business Intelligence Toolkit it has never been easier to get a BI project off the ground. Skunk works can offer a rapid, agile approach to building and evolving functional BI ...

If you work with data — or want to — Microsoft SQL Server is a skill worth having in your back pocket. The 2025 Total Microsoft SQL Server Bundle gives you five courses and 17 hours of practical, real ...

When in March this year Microsoft announced that it was bringing SQL Server to Linux the reaction was one of surprise, with the announcement prompting two big questions: why and how? SQL Server is one ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

In the last article we we looked at the new feature of .NET integration into the upcoming version of SQL Server 2005. This time we look at some more innovations in SQL Server by using the .NET ...

If you're in the process of planning an enterprise-wide data warehouse, proper planning is a prerequisite. But what if you're just getting started and you've got a tight, almost non-existent budget?

Last month we looked at the upcoming MS SQL Server 2005 Beta 2. In this version, the programmability of SQL Server is not anymore restricted only to SQL statements. You can now create solutions in SQL ...