Top 10 Features of SQL 2008 R2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces a number of interesting new features for both DBAs and developers alike. Read on to learn our top 10 favorites.
2010-01-25
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Articles
Free Tools for the SQL Server DBA Part 2
After a very popular first article on tools for the DBA, David Bird is back with a list of some utilities you might find very handy for working with SQL Server.
2010-01-22 (first published: 2008-12-04)
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Self-Service BI with PowerPivot for Excel 2010
Thiago kicks off a new series of articles, taking us through everything we need to know to use PowerPivot effectively. First off, he walks us through the prerequisites, and getting started with our first basic data set.
2010-01-22
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Sound Off with Soundex
In this article, learn how to use phonetic algorithms such as soundex to make looking up names faster, easier, and more reliable.
2010-01-22
2,629 reads
The power of batching Transactions
This article analyzes the performance gains of batching multiple DML statements into a single transaction. New author Manor Lev-Tov examines the effect of grouping statements together instead of running them all as separate transactions.
2010-01-21
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How To Enable Caching in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
We have many SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) reports that use our OLTP systems as data sources. We are always adding new reports and the number of users running these reports is also increasing rapidly. We would like to look at enabling report caching as a way to reduce some of the load on our database servers. In this tip I will go over the steps needed to enable report caching for SQL Server Reporting Services reports.
2010-01-21
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Retrieving Identities on set-based inserts
Learn a foolproof way to get identity values for multi-row inserts with the OUTPUT clause in SQL Server 2005 without using a cursor.
2010-01-20
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Full Text Index Queries using CONTAINS and CONTAINSTABLE
Recent installments of our SQL Server 2005 Express Edition series have been discussing its implementation of Full Text Indexing. This article focuses on the remaining two constructs, CONTAINS and CONTAINSTABLE.
2010-01-20
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Recovering data from corrupt tables using non-clustered indexes
At times database corruption happens and no good recovery path is available. It is possible to salvage data from indexes using query hints.
2010-01-19
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Finding Invalid SQL Logins
As many of you know the system stored procedure sp_validatelogins is used for finding invalid logins. Although sp_validatelogins is useful there's...
2010-01-19
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