By Brian Lawton, 09/21/2006
Regardless of the size and speed of your database, if you can’t trust your data, it’s useless. Learn how you can use some basic database best practices to set up your database and ...
By Brian Lawton, 05/26/2004
With SQL Server 2005 still on the distant horizon, how can you get the most out of your SQL Server 2000 system today? Dig into these seven valuable and often overlooked features.
By Brian Lawton, 12/19/2001
DTS can jumpstart your career by helping you master ETL implementation.
By Brian Lawton, 12/20/1999
Put DTS through its paces by applying these common scripting patterns to package development, including invoking a package from within another package, accessing properties the ...
By Brian Lawton, 12/20/1999
Careful planning can make your data warehouse a success. Use these tips and tricks for planning a successful data-warehousing project.
By Brian Lawton, 11/01/1999
Find out how DTS deals with errors, and you'll be on your way to building robust custom packages.
By Brian Lawton, 10/23/1999
Discover how to leverage DTS’ power and flexibility in a non-SQL Server environment.
By Brian Lawton, 10/01/1999
Custom transformations in DTS offer powerful maintainability, functionality, and performance. Here's an example showing how you can use a Visual C++ extension to build a custom ...
By Brian Lawton, 09/01/1999
We explain how to use custom packages to leverage the DTS object model further by examining custom tasks, what they are, and why you might use them. We then detail how to build a ...
By Brian Lawton, 09/01/1999
The DTS masters guide you through common development problems, including timestamp data types.
By Brian Lawton, 08/01/1999
The SQL Server Magazine migration alerts you to compatibility conflicts you'll encounter in migrating from SQL Sever 6.5 to 7.0
By Brian Lawton, 07/01/1999
Do you have a DTS question about error handling, package execution, extensibility, or data-driven queries? You're not alone. Let our experts help!
By Brian Lawton, 06/01/1999
Leverage the power of Data Transformation Services (DTS) by using its native COM interfaces.
By Brian Lawton, 05/01/1999
Data Transformation Services (DTS) is a SQL Server 7.0 utility service that provides import, export, and data manipulation capabilities between OLE DB, ODBC, and ASCII data stores.
By Brian Lawton, 04/01/1999
Learn how DTS attacks two troublesome warehousing tasks, data acquisition and data transformation, and how easily you can use the DTS Package Designer to script a package.
By Brian Lawton, 03/01/1999
DTS provides a fast, robust, extensible architecture for moving data out of traditional relational databases and into Microsoft's new SQL Server OLAP Services.