In the latest articles of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we have been discussing Service Broker. This article describes the initial setup of components required to demonstrate a distributed implementation, with initiator and target services residing on two separate computers.
2008-09-18
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By using SQL Server 2008’s new Data Profiling task, you can do a lot to ensure that data being imported via SSIS is valid, and you can develop a system that can take the necessary steps to correct the commonest problems. Bob Sheldon shows you how to get started with it.
2008-09-18
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Microsoft products such as Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 and Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) 3.0 ship with SQL Server 2005 Embedded Edition. Now called the Windows Internal Database, more and more system administrators charged with managing WSUS and WSS are faced with the challenge of managing these databases. Since most of these system administrators are not full-fledged DBAs, how do they manage the Windows Internal Database?
2008-09-17
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Part 1 of this series discusses the prerequisites for SQL Server cluster installation. Subsequent installments will provide step-by-step examples of SQL Server 2008 cluster installation.
2008-09-17
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One of the things I typically need to do is to collect performance data on the server which includes CPU, memory and disk utilization as well as SQL Server-specific data. What command line tools are available to do this?
2008-09-15
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Murphy’s Law tells us that whatever can go wrong will go wrong. This axiom applies to all aspects of life, including data warehousing. The following corollaries to Murphy’s Law relate this inevitability of something going “bump” in the night to data warehousing.
2008-09-15
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Join Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson as he kicks off an exploration of Attribute Member Keys, a continuation of a body of articles surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we introduce Attribute Member Keys, focusing upon the simple keys and their properties.
2008-09-12
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There is considerable evidence that successful data warehousing projects often produce a very high return on investment. Over the years a great deal of information has been collected about the factors that lead to a successful implementation versus an unsuccessful one. These are encapsulated here into a set of best practices, which are presented with particular reference to the features in SQL Server 2008.
2008-09-12
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I have a stored procedure I want to run when SQL Server starts. Is there a way to execute this procedure automatically each time the SQL Server service is started?
2008-09-11
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Unless you are the Database Administrator or the Application Analyst for a particular database you are usually oblivious to the naming conventions of the databases that support the applications you rely upon daily. This is why it is important to have the metadata repository in place to provide that translation when the need arises.
2008-09-11
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What are the initial config sizes for the tempdb primary data files, secondary data files, and log files in SQL Server 2022?
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