What type of things do you need to look at when setting up a data warehouse? Hardware is a big one as well as the settings for the server, which may be substantially different than transactional systems most DBAs work with. Warehousing expert Vincent Rainardi brings us the next installment in his data warehousing series with some advice on what you should be looking for.
2006-08-16
11,616 reads
Master data management (MDM) and eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) are two key technologies that promise to address important information management issues. Ventana Research believes both will enable companies to reduce the cost, time and effort needed to collect, analyze and use information, whether for visibility, decision support or process execution. Some observers may see them as competing approaches, but in practice each has capabilities best suited to some applications and not others. Even where they overlap, the two may not be mutually exclusive. We advise companies that have not yet begun investigating XBRL and MDM to do so immediately, and all organizations should begin developing skills in using them.
2006-08-16
1,436 reads
Intrusion Detection Systems are a great tool for security, but they have suffered from information overload with security professionals struggling to dig through the data. New author Yaroslav Pentsarskyy brings us a look at how SQL Server helped him find security issues.
2006-08-15
4,791 reads
In this presentation for SQL Server newbies, you'll learn how to maintain your SQL Server databases by backing them up regularly and reindexing them. This topic assumes you know nothing about SQL Server and also covers some of the decisions you'll have to make when you decide you want to backup your database through maintenance plans.
2006-08-15
2,658 reads
Numbers are fascinating concepts in all types of mathematics, but they can be very helpful as well in your SQL Server queries. Guru Michael Coles brings us a look at how a numbers table can you and includes a bunch of code for both SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.
2006-08-14
18,237 reads
SQL Express has no mechanism to schedule backups and maintenance of your instance. In this video, Brian shows you how to automate and schedule backups of SQL Express with a simple scripted solution.
2006-08-14
2,333 reads
In this section of this series, I am going to demonstrate how to install SQL server 2005 service pack 1, to update the server components using command line options.
2006-08-14
1,548 reads
Knowing how to configure backup applications and select backup media is half the battle of designing a successful backup strategy. The other half is choosing how and when to back up the specific pieces of data that are stored on your servers, share points, and workstations. In this final article of his series on backup basics for new technicians and administrators, Ryan Faas offers some suggestions to help you make these important decisions.
2006-08-11
2,967 reads
In bringing the SQLServerCentral.com training center online, one of the challenges Andy Warren faced was developing an automated way to install software. Here we see some of the gotchas and difficulties that you might encounter as well with unattended installations of SQL Server.
2006-08-10
11,507 reads
How many SQL Server instances are you running? Do you ever have customers calling you stating that their application is not working, then when you research the problem you find that the instance that supports their application is unavailable? Have you ever had someone mistakenly shutdown the SQL Agent service and forget to restart it, causing a number of scheduled jobs to not be run? One of the tasks of a DBA is to monitor the availability of all SQL Server instances and services.
2006-08-10
3,195 reads
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