Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
2008-09-13
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Articles
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
2008-09-13
760 reads
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
2008-09-13
491 reads
Attribute Member Keys – Pt 1: Introduction and Simple Keys
Join Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson as he kicks off an exploration of Attribute Member Keys, a continuation of a body of articles surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we introduce Attribute Member Keys, focusing upon the simple keys and their properties.
2008-09-12
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Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008
There is considerable evidence that successful data warehousing projects often produce a very high return on investment. Over the years a great deal of information has been collected about the factors that lead to a successful implementation versus an unsuccessful one. These are encapsulated here into a set of best practices, which are presented with particular reference to the features in SQL Server 2008.
2008-09-12
5,318 reads
2008-09-11
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Creating a Tabular Report - SQL School Video
SQL School continues with our series on Reporting services, this time examining how tabular reports can be easily built.
2008-09-11
4,892 reads
Patindex
This artcle by new author Manie Verster examines the use of the PATINDEX function in T-SQL.
2008-09-11
10,473 reads
Automatically Running Stored Procedures at SQL Server Startup
I have a stored procedure I want to run when SQL Server starts. Is there a way to execute this procedure automatically each time the SQL Server service is started?
2008-09-11
3,855 reads
Hands-on SQL Server from SQLSkills
In San Francisco, Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal of SQLSkills will be presenting a two and a half day, hands-on workshop covering database infrastructure and scalability.
2008-09-11
2,440 reads
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When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can generate values before an insert statement is executed?
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