SQL Saturday #179 - Kharkov, Ukraine
SQL Saturday in the Ukraine. If you want a free day of training, sign up and attend.
2012-11-19
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Articles
Day 7 of The OLAP Sprint
The final day of Simon's journey to improve his OLAP knowledge and build a prototype cube.
2012-11-16
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Generating SubTotals using GROUPING
This article explains how to use the GROUPING clause to generate subtotals for rows in a very easy fashion.
2012-11-16 (first published: 2010-07-13)
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SQL Saturday #168 - Tampa BI Edition
A free day of SQL Server Business Intelligence sessions in Tampa, FL tomorrow.
2012-11-16
1,605 reads
SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn: Multisite Failover Cluster Instance
SQL Server Failover Clustering, which includes support for both local and multisite failover configurations, is part of the SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn implementation suite, designed to provide high availability and disaster recovery for SQL Server. The multisite failover clustering technology has been enhanced significantly in SQL Server 2012. The multisite failover cluster architecture, enhancements in SQL Server 2012 to the technology, and some best practices to help with deployment of the technology are the primary focus of this paper.
2012-11-16
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2012-11-15
863 reads
Hierarchies on Steroids #2: A Replacement for Nested Sets Calculations
In this sequel to his first "Hierarchies on Steroids" article, SQL Server MVP Jeff Moden shows us how to build a pre-aggregated table that will answer most of the questions that you could ask of a typical hierarchy. Any bets on whether Santa is packin’ a Tally Table in his bag or not?
2012-11-15
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FileStream and FileTable in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 enhanced the SQL Server 2008 FileStream data type by introducing FileTable, which lets an application integrate its storage and data management components to allow non-transactional access, and provide integrated SQL Server services. Arshad Ali explains how.
2012-11-15
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Day 5 of The OLAP Sprint
Day 5, the first real day of the Summit. Amir Netz' session and a little cube work.
2012-11-14
998 reads
Prevent Truncation of Dynamically Generated Results in SQL Server Management Studio
While working with the Results to Text option in SSMS, you may come across a situation where the output from dynamically generated data is truncated. In this article I will guide you on how to fix this issue and print all the text for the Results to Text option.
2012-11-14
2,887 reads
Blogs
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Question of the Day
The Long Name
I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?