Are you looking to Hadoop?
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
2009-10-08
1,058 reads
Articles
How to easily identify a scheduled Reporting Services report
In this tip I will show you an easy way to identify the scheduled Reporting Services report, so you can run that scheduled job to reproduce the reports and delivery of the reports.
2009-10-08
3,640 reads
SQL Server RDL Specification
In today's database reporting market, most vendor applications use a proprietary format for representing the definition of a report. In addition, vendors that provide a report execution environment usually only support their own design tools. For customers, this means that reports cannot be easily moved between different reporting implementations and that there are few options for choosing new tools that work with their existing execution environments.
2009-10-08
440 reads
Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact
Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...
2009-10-07
3,203 reads
Motivating the Team
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
2009-10-07
471 reads
Motivating the Team
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
2009-10-07
491 reads
Motivating the Team
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
2009-10-07
469 reads
Securing Reporting Services
Marcin Policht continues his discussion of implementing Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, focusing in particular on security-related topics. This article continues this subject by describing other technologies that assist with data protection, their corresponding configuration settings, and a few authentication and authorization caveat
2009-10-07
2,632 reads
Custom Rounding and Truncation of Numbers in MDX
MDX applies "bankers' rounding" algorithm in its ROUND() function. This article shows you how to avoid that and round like in T-SQL and Excel.
2009-10-06
4,758 reads
The SQL Connectivity Team wants your opinion
Take this survey from the SQL Server developer team at Microsoft.
2009-10-06
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Blogs
Red Flags in Your Query (T-SQL Tuesday #200)
By Zikato
When I'm looking at a query, I bet it's bad if I see... a...
T-SQL Tuesday #200: When I Look at a Query …
By Steve Jones
This month is a milestone for T-SQL Tuesday. It’s number 200, which doesn’t sound...
Reflections on the Life of a DBA
The DBA life is fraught with pain. Those battles that we endure are mostly...
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