When the reporting team needs an assist...
Collect your data from your servers easily using linked servers.
2013-10-21
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Articles
SQL Server Storage Internals 101
This article is an extract from the book Tribal SQL. In this article, Mark S. Rasmussen offers a concise introduction to the physical storage internals behind SQL Server databases. He doesn't dive into every detail, but provides a simple, clear picture of how SQL Server stores data.
2013-10-21
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Slowly Changing Facts
This article describes a design pattern for storing “effective dated" changes to fact tables.
2013-10-18 (first published: 2010-12-22)
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How to hot-add a vCPU to a virtual SQL Server
One of the benefits of running SQL on virtual environment is the capability to present additional vCPUs to the virtual server online and real-time without interruption to running processes. Our VM administrator normally presents only 1 vCPU on the virtual server and extends as required. This article describes how SQL Server is able to detect hot-added vCPUs in my virtual server.
2013-10-18
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SQL Server 2014 CTP 2 is available
Download the latest preview of the the next SQL Server version for testing.
2013-10-18
4,775 reads
Reporting Services Disaster Recovery
Dave Lumley presents a Reporting services disaster recovery solution for SQL Server Standard Edition, using 2 servers. Worth the read if you don't run Enterprise.
2013-10-17 (first published: 2010-04-21)
19,220 reads
Replicating A Volume Of Large Data via Transactional Replication
During weekend maintenance, members of the support team executed an UPDATE statement against the database on the OLTP Server. This database was a part of Transactional Replication, and once the UPDATE statement was executed the Replication procedure came to a halt with an error message. Satnam Singh decided to work on this case and try to find an efficient solution to rebuild the procedure without significant downtime.
2013-10-17
2,886 reads
Error during installation of an SQL server Failover Cluster Instance
A common issue I've run into while helping with SQL Server Failover Cluster (FCI) installations is the failure of the Network Name. In the following post I'll discuss a bit of background, the common root cause, and how to resolve it.
2013-10-16
2,239 reads
SQL Monitor Performance Metric: Buffer Cache Used Per Database in MB
Data pages read from disk are placed in the buffer pool with the intention that they will be reused, and accessing them from RAM is faster than from disk. Knowing how much of your RAM is committed to each database can help you provision the right amount of RAM to SQL Server, and also to identify rogue queries that draw too much data into RAM and force data from other databases out of the cache.
2013-10-15
3,478 reads
SQL Server Integration Services Connection Manager Tips and Tricks
In this article, we will take a look at the following Tips and Tricks for Connection Managers: Adding an "Application Name" property to the connection string; Creating Two Connection Managers for each Database Connection; and Capturing Connection Manager details in Package Configurations
2013-10-15
5,063 reads
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Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document III
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT TOP 2
json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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