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Dynamic Data Warehousing - The Virtual Brand Reaches Take-Off Speed

The interest in dynamic data warehousing (DDW) is growing significantly. A sure sign that the virtual brand has reached take-off speed is claims by bloggers that they did not get enough credit for coining the concept, viral brand or idea. For example, Dan Linstedt recently went on what he described as a "rant" about "dynamic data warehousing."

2007-07-03

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Writing SQL Faster

All of us would like to code faster and with fewer mistakes. While a third party tool usualy won't help with the latter, there are a few to help you increase the speed at which you build readable code. New author Tom Fisher brings us a short tutorial on using a couple of Red Gate's tools.

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2007-06-28

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Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services

This white paper describes how to set up a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services so that you can handle a large number of concurrent queries to your Analysis Services servers. Load-balanced querying ensures that readers of OLAP cubes can consistently query for the latest aggregations throughout the day and distribute the load of all queries among the available servers. This scale-out querying architecture optimizes cube processing time, increases the frequency of cube update, and makes processing more robust as you can afford more frequent processing and transparent error recovery.

2007-06-26

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Using SQL Server Table-Valued User-defined Functions with Exchange Web

The SQL Server Tables and Exchange Web Services sample demonstrates a powerful integration of Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 features. This integration enables you to provide data from both Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server to client applications so that the data appears as if it were stored in SQL Server. As you will see, this creates some exciting development scenarios.

2007-06-22

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