In this article, I will introduce a significant improvement that underlies the new Analysis Services development approach, the Data Source View. A Data Source View is a design-time object that makes its home in the workbench environment of the Business Intelligence Development Studio.
2005-10-20
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In testing your applications, one of the things that you often want to do is run through a list of all possible values for some particular piece of code. Eli Leiba brings us a method for autmatically generating all the possible permutations for input values.
2005-10-19
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SQL Server Profiler can correlate Microsoft Windows System Monitor (Performance Monitor in Windows NT 4.0) counters with SQL Server or SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) events. Windows System Monitor logs system activity for specified counters in performance logs. The first thing to remember is in order to have correlating information you need to obviously be in sync - in other words you must start the perfmon trace and profiler trace at the same time or else they won't match up.
2005-10-19
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Have you ever wanted an easy way to determine if a job is running for automated checks? This might not be an easy way, but Leo Peysakhovich provides a way that works and corrects an error in Books Online.
2005-10-18
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Database geeks are all around us. I met Gary Mallow on the email list of a cycling group run by a local church. After some conversation, I discovered that he is a director of a group of developers who build applications, sometimes using .NET and often using Oracle as a database. Like me, Gary is not entirely comfortable with his ability as a UI developer, and so finds database work a good fit.
2005-10-18
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We started a trend with our Worst Practices, looking at things you should not do instead of those you should. Sean McCown has taken that to a new level looking at some things that you can do to ensure you don't get your next job. Read about a few things that you might avoid in your next interview.
2005-10-17
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Many downloads - especially from MS - are now coming as ISO images. Usually you burn these to CD or DVD and then use as normal, but there is a way to access the image directly saving the time/cost of burning. Not a SQL article, but you may find it useful anyway.
2005-10-14 (first published: 2004-07-16)
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In the preceding articles of this series, Lock Granularity, Transactions, and ACID were introduced. Common lock types, such as Shared, Exclusive, and Update were explored, as well as using SP_Lock to obtain current system lock information. In this article, the normal internal SQL locking methods will be manipulated using Lock Hints in order to obtain finer lock control.
2005-10-14
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The MARS guy. That's where Steve Jones and Andy Warren first met Christian Kleinerman, group program manager with the SQL Server engine team. Learn a little bit about Christian and his views on SQL Server.
2005-10-13
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Have you ever had a need to run a query or a process as soon as SQL Server starts? Or run some set of tasks when SQL Server Agent Starts? Possibly you want to run a cleanup routine, a copy process or have some task started each time SQL server or SQL Agent is started. Well if this is the case then this article will discuss a couple of options you might consider using to accomplish automatically running your process.
2005-10-13
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Here’s the scenario: one of my SQL Server instances migrated to the DR array....
By Steve Jones
We are product focused at Redgate Software. Here is another of our values that...
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A fugitive cyber-criminal, a wingsuit, and 24 million flight records. Somewhere between Doha and...
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