Building Your Brand at Work?
This Friday's poll asks how much you can help yourself while working at your job? Can you build your own brand at work?
2009-07-16
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Articles
Creating a Member Selection Dashboard Filter in Performance Point Server 2007 (PPS)
We have heard that you can create filters in a Performance Point dashboard then apply them to one or more reports and scorecards. Can you provide some step-by-step instruction on how to do this?
2009-07-16
2,102 reads
Exploded Pie Chart for Analysis Services Data
MSAS Architect Bill Pearson leads the hands-on creation of an exploded pie chart based upon an Analysis Service data source.
2009-07-16
2,446 reads
William Durkin, Serial Red Gate Beta Tester
In this article sponsored by Red Gate, read about a beta tester's experience with new versions of SQL tools.
2009-07-16
1,595 reads
Downloading a file over HTTP the SSIS way
This post shows you how to download files from a web site whilst really making the most of the SSIS objects that are available. There is no task to do this, so we have to use the Script Task and some simple VB.NET or C# (if you have SQL Server 2008) code
2009-07-15
2,999 reads
Over-Engineering
Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.
2009-07-15
435 reads
Over-Engineering
Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.
2009-07-15
457 reads
Over-Engineering
Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.
2009-07-15
506 reads
Testing with Profiler Custom Events and Database Snapshots
We've all had them. One of those stored procedures that is huge and contains complex business logic which may or may not be executed. These procedures make it an absolute nightmare when it comes to debugging problems because they're so complex and have so many logic offshoots that it's very easy to get lost when you're trying to determine the path that the procedure code took when it ran. Fortunately Profiler lets you define custom events that you can raise in your code and capture in a trace so you get a better window into the sub events occurring in your code.
2009-07-15
2,305 reads
Database Mail, Part 2 - SQL School Video
Database Mail is an essential part of administering SQL Server for most people. MVP Andy Warren brings us part 2 of how to set up this subsystem.
2009-07-14
6,339 reads
Blogs
How to Find Expensive Queries in Amazon Redshift
Slow-running queries can degrade your Redshift cluster’s performance and lead to increased costs. Identifying...
The Notification Trap: How Input Fatigue Is Killing Deep Work in Tech
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Designing a Storage Load Test for SQL Server
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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