Use IsGeneration() to support conditional logic within filter expressions. BI Architect Bill Pearson looks beyond employing IsGeneration() in calculations, and provides hand-on practice in its use within the MDX Filter() function.
2007-08-17
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One limitation of SQLAgent is that granularity to which you can schedule jobs: every minute. Sometimes there are things that you would like to happen more frequently, like alerting. Johan Bijnens brings us a technique for getting your SQL Agent to respond to alerts in as little as every 10 seconds.
2007-08-16
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How many cores (or hardware threads) can your code harness to get its answers faster?
2007-08-16
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Remi Gregoire describes one of the Support nightmares, the vice of RBAR Database Programming, 'Row By Agonising Row', and illustrates how the effect of RBAR can sometimes be felt only years after an application is released, when the database supporting the application grows.
2007-08-16
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A new Java based application for searching SQL Server and Sybase databases is available for free from SQLMesh.
2007-08-16
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There is often a need to work with time data representing various events and then reporting on them in SQL Server applications. However T-SQL doesn't necessarily make this easy. However new author Joe Lynds brings us an article on some advanced T-SQL to do just that.
2007-08-15
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This tutorial shows you how to properly install Microsoft's SQL Server 2005, avoiding the pitfalls of an unsuccessful deployment.
2007-08-15
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SQL Server 20008 will be released approximately February of 2008, along with a new version of Visual Studio and Windows. This article will highlight some of the new features and benefits found in SQL Server 2008.
2007-08-15
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One of the nice new features in SQL Server 2005 is the ability to partition a table based on some sort of range in the data. New author Irfan Baig brings us a short article that explains exactly how you can get started using this new feature.
2007-08-14
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In a previous article I showed how to look at what query plans are in SQL Server's memory. In this article I'll look at how they got there and how and when they get reused. This is commonly called compiling a query plan. More specifically I'll look at how and when SQL Server can parameterize dynamic SQL
2007-08-14
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