These loyalty cards are quite often used as an inroad into tracking your purchasing behavior. This in turn becomes data fed into a business intelligence system that businesses use...

My opinion on why Microsoft stuffs many "features" like SSRS in SQL Server is that Microsoft is marketing similar to Disney. When you go to Disneyworld, they have hotels,...

Our theory on using local drives was based on the data being transitory and having the local and SAN drives providing multiple I/O pathways. The in flight transaction issue...

We are just starting out in SQL Server and would like to avoid using xp-cmdshell if we can because we aren't real sure of ourselves with securing it.  Current...