You can use DAX to create reports from a tabular database in SQL Server Reporting Services. To do so requires a few workarounds. Rob Sheldon describes a poorly-documented but important technique for Business Intelligence.
2013-09-09
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This article will show you how to scan SQL Server Error Logs with ease and track important information that is stored there.
2013-09-06 (first published: 2011-02-14)
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PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter will be hosting a session on what managers need to know about SQL Licensing, presented by Joseph D'Antonio on September 11, 2013.
2013-09-06
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SQL Saturday is coming to Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday, September 14 2013. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking.
2013-09-06
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You are tasked with examining poor performance for queries on a certain table, or range of tables. Perhaps a sales report is timing out or running unacceptably slow; perhaps your web application is failing to return the result set before the application timeout is reached. You need to find out what's causing the bottleneck, and optimize either the queries used, the table schemata, or both.
2013-09-06
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Easily monitoring your SQL Agent job history using SSRS for concurrency, job lenght and job status.
2013-09-05
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With ODBC, you can summarise, and select just the data you need, in an Excel workbook before importing it into SQL Server. You can join data from different areas or worksheets. You can even get data from the result of a SQL Server SELECT statement into an Excel spreadsheet. Phil Factor shows how, and warns of some of the pitfalls.
2013-09-05
4,816 reads
Column Store Index, which improves performance of data warehouse queries several folds, was first introduced in SQL Server 2012. Unlike regular indexes or heaps, which store data in B-Tree structure (in row-wise fashion), the column store index stores data in columnar fashion and uses compression aggressively to reduce the disk I/O needed to serve the query request. In this article, Arshad Ali talks about the new enhanced columnstore index feature in SQL Server 2014.
2013-09-04
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Red Gate is looking for a Business Intelligence Developer to work with our internal development team on creating business intelligence solutions. You'll be responsible for designing, building, and testing end-to-end BI solutions using the Microsoft BI stack, so we'll expect you to be passionate about understanding data and generating a universe of analytics for your customers – our Red Gaters.
2013-09-04
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A way to assign variable and overrideable defaults to input parameters to an SP or FUNCTION using a configurations table.
2013-09-03
8,367 reads
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