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There are a number of events coming up in 2010 that need speakers to share their knowledge of SQL Server with others. Check out this list and consider submitting something.
2010-02-24
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Articles
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Consolidation Best Practices
This technical note describes the consolidation options, considerations, and best practices for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services that the SQL CAT team has derived from working with Analysis Services customers. In this technical note, we also discuss an Analysis Services load balancer solution that one of our internal customers uses to load balance queries from Microsoft Excel® and SQL Server Reporting Services clients across multiple query servers to increase query performance and provide availability.
2010-02-24
1,994 reads
Sometimes, you have to fix it yourself
The Problem
SQL Server is a huge product with lots of moving parts. Bugs happen. Microsoft has a place to voice...
2010-02-24
2,200 reads
SQL Saturday #37 - Philadelphia
Come to this great one day training event in Philadelphia, PA. SQL Saturday is a great way to get free training on all aspects of SQL Server.
2010-02-24 (first published: 2010-02-04)
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Dynamically Map Column Data Based on Column Pattern Profiling
Tutorial on using Script Component, Regular Expression and derived Column Transform to dynamically map different source column types into the appropriate target column for address data.
2010-02-23
3,333 reads
Managing Analysis Services Deployment - Part 3
Part 3 of this series, Shahfaisal Muhammed brings a common method of deploying your SSAS projects to a new server: backup and restore. The rest of the series covers other methods.
2010-02-23
3,839 reads
Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services - Sample Chapter
Learn about SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with this new title from Wiley. We have a sample chapter you can read to see if you like this book.
2010-02-23
2,831 reads
Development Lifecycle Deployment SSAS, SSRS, SSIS
Many companies have a very rigid development lifecycle for all products or solutions they develop. Deploying to each of these...
2010-02-23
3,142 reads
SQL Server Lazy Writer Issue: Warning, No Free Buffers Found
This tip is intended to help someone who is or will be facing a no free buffer found issue with the SQL Server LazyWriter. Recently, we experienced some unknown issues with our SQL Server and after inspecting the error log file we noticed the following errors: "SQL Server has encountered 50 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file..." and "LazyWriter: warning, no free buffers found." These error messages were followed by a SQL Server memory dump file like SQLDump0030.mdmp in the file system.
2010-02-23
2,484 reads
The T-SQL Hammer
The over-reliance on a familiar tool is best described with the quote, “if all you have is hammer, everything looks...
2010-02-23
4,134 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: Spread across the world
By Steve Jones
This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
Merry Christmas
By John
Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
Forums
Database backup job steps
I have a SQL Agent job for backing up a set of Analysis Services...
SQL Server 2025 Backup Compression Algorithm
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The Large Encoded Value
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Question of the Day
The Large Encoded Value
I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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