Create Linked Reports from within SQL Server Management Studio. BI Architect Bill Pearson examines another approach for using Linked Reports to provide multiple "versions" of a single-source report.
2006-07-21
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Stored procedures are a great way to encapsulate code and reuse it in many places in your application. But when you have a performance issue, how do you know which part of the stored procedure is giving you problems? Steve Jones takes a look at a few techniques for diving into stored procedures and identifying problem areas.
2006-07-20
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In this section of this series, I am going to demonstrate how to install SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1, to update the client components using command line options.
2006-07-20
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In this short demonstration, you'll learn how to use DDL database triggers to prevent changes to product and audit changes to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other change management requirements. Free registration required.
2006-07-20
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Depending on your age, you may not want to know this number, but as you advance in your career, this might be a problem that you look to solve one day. Peter Larsson takes a few minutes to work out a function in T-SQL that can be used to solve this or any similar question.
2006-07-19
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Visual Studio developers have enjoyed the benefits of intellisense for some time, but us SQL Server users have had to work from memory. Wayne Fillis was so enthralled with a new offering from Red Gate he wrote a short review and sent it in. Check out his thoughts and how this product can help you.
2006-07-18
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This article describes the "beta" version of Simple-Talk's SQL formatting tool, SQL Prettifier. It provides links both to try it out online and to download the full source code (members only). Please give us your feedback! We will be offering prizes for any fixes and improvements that make it into "v1". I'd like this to become the de-facto (excuse the pun) tool for presenting code in the Simple-Talk articles, blogs and forums.
2006-07-18
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The second in a series from Adindam Banerjee on server performance and capacity planning. This time Arindam takes a look at the memory requirements for SQL Server.
2006-07-17
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SqlBulkTool is a command line utility that is used to quickly create a mirror of a database. It reads its configuration from an XML file containing source and destination command strings and a list of all the tables to mirror and then handles the work of copying the database in an automated and highly parallelized way.
2006-07-17
2,156 reads
This is an entry level look at how temp tables work in SQL along with some tips about how to use them effectively.
2006-07-14 (first published: 2004-02-11)
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By James Serra
Most enterprise questions do not live neatly in one place. The numbers may be...
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
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