Microsoft s commitment to innovation Join the SQL Server community 10 Database Firsts Find out what innovations Microsoft developers built into SQL Server. Voices of SQL Server Get the inside story of SQL Server from the people who made it happen. The Data Management Landscape SQL Server 10 Years Later Look back at the past decade of data management...

Data quality is a critical issue in data integration. Donald Farmer introduces the data quality features of SQL Server Integration Services with demos that show how to use the Fuzzy Lookup component for inexact matching and how to use Data Mining within the data integration process....

SQL Server 2000 SP4 significantly reduces the time it takes to identify and determine the underlying cause of I O issues....

Explore security enhancements in SQL Server 2005 from a developer s perspective endpoint authentication support for the security context of managed code that executes on the server and much more....

Learn how easy it is to build and debug your first SQL Server Integration Services SSIS Package. Donald Farmer introduces the development environment and the basic concepts of packages and walks through the creation and testing of a simple data flow....

Get a detailed look at how to set up SQL Server 2005 for Web service access in a heterogeneous environment and learn more about key scenarios for Web services in SQL Server 2005....

SQL Server Professional s Ron Talmage explores SQLCMD SQL Server 2005 s new command-line query tool and shows you some of the major new features....

Build an application to display a query s estimated execution cost from its XML showplan. Users can submit only those queries costing less than a predetermined threshold to avoid server overload....

Data Access Strategies Using ADO.NET and SQL...

Discover the new Analysis Services 2005 drillthrough architecture. See how to set up drillthrough in Analysis Services 2005 and get guidance on migrating drillthrough settings from Analysis Services 2000 databases....

Free online assessments help you analyze your current skills and provide you with a learning plan that recommends books e-learning classroom training and Microsoft resources....

Discover how XQuery works in SQL Server 2005 the FLWOR statement operators in XQuery the if-then-else construct XML constructors built-in XQuery functions type casting operators and more....

Getting started with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or the new report controls in Visual Studio 2005 Brian Welcker demonstrates some tips and tricks that you can use to add interactive features to your own reports....

Rick Dobson gives you a first look at Express Manager the new lightweight database management tool that works with SQL Server 2005 2005 Express Edition SQL Server 2000 and MSDE....

What can Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services SSIS do for you This webcast introduces the remarkable integration capabilities of SSIS demonstrating how to write reusable custom components with Microsoft .NET code. The samples are available for download - ExtendingSSISWebCastDemos.zip . The web cast is now available on-demand......