David Poole is a regular author at SQLServerCentral.com, sharing many of his knowledge and experiences with us over the years. This time he examines some of the issues that you might have with replication.
2008-03-06
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More and more companies are using data warehouses as a way of consolidating business critical information. And more and more of these companies want the warehouse available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This presents interesting challenges for the DBA involved in ETL processing. Longtime author Leo Peysakhovich brings us one solution for this problem.
2008-03-06 (first published: 2007-03-19)
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Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his subseries surrounding components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In the second half of this article, we extend our focus on dimensions to include property settings for Cube Dimensions.
2008-03-06
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This next post from MVP Simon Sabin examines one of the major improvements in performance of search.
2008-03-06
1,574 reads
As DBAs we go to great lengths to ensure the security of our production data. But what happens when it moves off of a production server?
2008-03-06
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As DBAs we go to great lengths to ensure the security of our production data. But what happens when it moves off of a production server?
2008-03-06
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As DBAs we go to great lengths to ensure the security of our production data. But what happens when it moves off of a production server?
2008-03-06
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This is the eighth article in a continuing series, and this installment discusses the Data Steward Coordinator.
2008-03-06
1,436 reads
In SQL Server 2005, the management object framework changed substantially from the DMO framework in prior verisons. Now we have SMO, RMO, and other .NET assemblies that can be used to manage SQL Server. New author Brandie Tarvin brings us a short look at how SMO can be used to perform one of those critical tasks in SQL Server.
2008-03-05 (first published: 2007-03-13)
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This article explains how to import text files using SSIS in those cases where the text files have different formatted data on different rows. The solution recommended involves minimal coding and is highly maintainable.
2008-03-05
8,885 reads
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I have this data in the dbo.Commission table in a SQL Server 2022 database.
salesperson commission Brian 12 Brian 16 Andy 7 Andy 14 Andy 21 Steve 20 Steve NULLAll the data is a varchar, and I decide to run this query to get the totals for each salesperson.
SELECT SalesPerson
, AVG(TRY_PARSE(Commission AS int)) AS TotalCommission
FROM commission
GROUP BY SalesPerson
GO
What average commission is calculated for Steve? See possible answers