Marcin Policht presents a high-level overview of SQL Server 2012 Integration Services, covering some significant advances in the areas of usability, productivity, and manageability.
Having stored procedures returning result sets can become a problem when you want to have control of the name and data type of the columns being returned. Arshad Ali explains a new SQL Server 2012 feature, which lets you redefine the name and data types of the columns being returned from the stored procedure.
SQL Server 2008 R2 Integration Services offer a wide range of pre-built components, which deliver generic functionality commonly required when performing ETL tasks. While most of them are fairly straightforward to deploy in their basic form, there are caveats that should be taken into account as part of their implementation. Read on to learn more.
In 11.2, Oracle offers the option of invisible indexes, which can't be 'seen' by any session by default, so it can be created and remain unavailable until testing is scheduled. This can be confusing since Oracle has never offered such a feature. Looking at an example might clear up any confusion.
Archiving older data is a complex task. Within the context of an Oracle database there are methods of archiving data, some simple, some a bit more complex but still within the realm of possibility. Let's look at those options and what they can, and cannot, offer.
In the z/OS environment, tuning a DB2 subsystem may require the DBA and systems programmers to wear multiple hats and approach overall performance tuning from several different angles. What approaches are best in which situations?
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