In Part Two of his series, database administration expert Baya Pavliashvili explores the challenges involved in building and maintaining a warehousing solution using a simple database warehouse.
2006-03-02
3,657 reads
A bit of a break from the SQL Server side with this great new .NET class developed by new author Jereme Guenther. He prints a page character by character to handle control of formatting. Take a look and see if this solves any of your .NET printing problems.
2006-03-01
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In the first of a two-part series, Baya Pavliashvili, database administration expert, offers solutions to your business problem using a data warehouse.
2006-03-01
4,624 reads
T-SQL has some well known limitations when working with parameters for a stored procedure, not the least of which is a variable number of parameters. While there are some solutions, they can be cumbersome to work with. Sloan Holliday brings us a creative solution using XML that can solve many issues.
2006-02-28
12,039 reads
You can improve your SQL performance by using indexes. But you have to choose the proper indexes and make sure the ones you do choose fit into your business situation. In this indexing guide, you will find answers to common indexing questions, indexing dos and don'ts, and tricks for working with the Index Tuning Wizard to improve overall system performance for SQL Server 2000 servers. This is particularly useful for servers that need a boost before they are upgraded to SQL Server 2005.
2006-02-28
5,279 reads
Have you ever wanted to create your own utility procedures in SQL Server? Maybe your own information schema view? SQL Server export David Poole brings us an article dicussing these very topcis and offers advice on how to proceed.
2006-02-27
12,361 reads
A SQL Server DBA often needs to perform ad hoc operations on data in their databases. The tasks can typically be handled with simple T-SQL statements, but other times a more complex operation is called for – and having to manually enter all the T-SQL code necessary for such an operation is not appealing! It can be difficult to perfect the syntax, and tedious to list column names once, twice or even three times. Fortunately, useful template code can be easily generated instead of being entered by hand.
2006-02-27
3,601 reads
A defense-in-depth strategy, with overlapping layers of security, is the best way to counter these threats, and the least-privileged user account (LUA) approach is an important part of that defensive strategy. The LUA approach ensures that users follow the principle of least privilege and always log on with limited user accounts. This strategy also aims to limit the use of administrative credentials to administrators, and then only for administrative tasks.
2006-02-24
2,597 reads
DB Ghost BUILDS, COMPARES and SYNCHRONIZES your SQL Server databases. It guarantees database integrity by building databases directly from your source control system.
2006-02-23
2,981 reads
How should you interview for that new DBA job? What is appropriate and what should you leave out? Steve Jones shares some advice on interviewing that has helped him in his career.
2006-02-23
10,966 reads
You can find the slides of my session on the €100 DWH in Azure...
By Steve Jones
This value is something that I still hear today: our best work is done...
By gbargsley
Have you ever received the dreaded error from SQL Server that the TempDB log...
Hi everyone I am writing an SP where there is logic inside the SP...
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We have a BI-application that connects to input tables on a SQL Server 2022...
I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping
AS
SELECT cl.CityNameID,
cl.CityName,
o.OrderID,
o.Customer,
o.OrderDate,
o.CustomerID,
o.cityId
FROM dbo.CityList AS cl
INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID
GO
CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder
(
@OrderID INT
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(50)
WITH SCHEMABINDING
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50);
SELECT @city = os.CityName
FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os
WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID;
RETURN @city;
END;
go
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