Analysis Services and business intelligence are new structures for most of the SQL Server world. BI expert Yaniv Mor brings us another article on Analysis Services, this time explaining the various different options for storing your cube data.
2006-10-31
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DW/BI professionals are often tasked with making evolutionary upgrades and improvements to minimize cost and upheaval in the current analytic environment. We explore four upgrades that can breathe new life into legacy data warehouses.
2006-10-31
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Gathering performance data on your servers can be a cumbersome task without paying for an expensive tool. New author Jambu Krishnamurthy brings us a short tutorial on how you can gather this data from Perfmon and import it into SQL Server for reporting.
2006-10-30
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If your SQL Server app is suffering from poor performance and you suspect a missing index, then read on
2006-10-30
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In this presentation, Brian shows you how to run a SSIS package outside the designer environment using DTExec.exe and DTExecUI.exe. He also shows you how to schedule an SSIS package using SQL Server Agent.
2006-10-30
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Retrieving the identity value from an inserted row should be a very simple task. But based on his survey at TechEd 2005 as well as some recent interviews, Andy Warren points out some of the wrong answers and turmoils he has faced in getting this question answered.
2006-10-27 (first published: 2005-08-01)
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Damon Armstrong learned the hard way about the consequences of not having a clearly defined project scope or work contract
2006-10-27
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The SQL Server memory manager is one of the more complicated parts of SQL Server and we had the chance recently to talk to the person that ensures it runs as smoothly as possible. Get to know the man behind the SQLOS.
2006-10-26
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SQL Server 2000 and 2005 do not include much in the way of financial functions, but there are many sources for the formulas for financial calculations. In this tip, I present the present value (PV) and future value (FV) functions, both of which are scalar UDFs.
2006-10-26
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In this video, Kathi continues her T-SQL series and exands how to use the WHERE clause.
2006-10-26
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By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers