Snapshot isolation levels improve performance but there are some things to take into consideration when using this feature. Arshad Ali discusses what snapshot isolation levels are, their variants, and why and when we should use them.
2012-05-14
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A guide to the SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence exams.
2012-05-11
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Despite the neglect of the basic ODBC drivers over the years, they still afford a neat way of reading from, and writing to, CSV files; and to be able to do so in SQL as if they were tables is somewhat magical. Just to prove it is possible, Phil Factor creates a CSV version of AdventureWorks as a linked server.
2012-05-11
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Performance test of new SQL 2012 functions DateTimeFromParts and Format
2012-05-10
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I have data in a SQL Server database that I need to get to an older version of SQL Server. I tried the backup and restore method, but received an error indicating that this wasn't allowed. I also tried to detach and attach the database, but that operation failed too. I understand that typical methods I use to move the database around don't work when I have to work with an earlier SQL Server version. What can I do to get the data out? This is a simple database and I want to spend a minimal amount of effort.
2012-05-10
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Learn how you can set up a new SQL Server instance painlessly on Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS)
2012-05-09
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Identify resource bottlenecks in a stressed transaction replication topology using PERFMON/PAL and system wait stats
2012-05-09
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SQL Server Reporting Services provides several ways to analyze the data; a few of them are creating reports with indicators and Gauges. Indicators are minimal gauges that convey the state of a single data value at a glance and are mostly used to represent the state value of Key Performance Indicator (KPI, a measurable value which has business significance with a specific target or goal that indicates whether things are going good or bad).
2012-05-09
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When writing T-SQL, a lot of developers use either COALESCE or ISNULL in order to provide a default value in cases where the input is NULL. The two functions do have quite different behavior and it is important to understand the qualitative differences between them when using them in your code.
2012-05-08
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This article looks at the bulk-logged recovery model in depth and examines how it affects disaster recovery and logging.
2012-05-07
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