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
11,330 reads
If your SQL Server app is suffering from poor performance and you suspect a missing index, then read on
2006-10-30
2,990 reads
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
1,909 reads
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
3,089 reads
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
2,827 reads
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
2,458 reads
In this video, Kathi continues her T-SQL series and exands how to use the WHERE clause.
2006-10-26
3,469 reads
We've moved the subscriptions for the SQL Server Standard to it's own site and just completed the November issue. Read on for how to access your subscriptions or subscribe today.
2006-10-25
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What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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