Put the stacked bar chart to work in your own business environment. BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his hands-on introduction to Reporting Services charts based upon Analysis Services data sources.
2009-06-05
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One of the problems you might run into when building applications that consume web services is how you can use web services data within a SQL Server instance. Greg Larsen discusses how to do this within a stored procedure that only runs within the context of SQL Server.
2009-06-04
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Separation of duties is an important consideration for databases and database applications. By properly defining schemas and roles, you can create a distinction between users who can manipulate data from those that administer the database. This paper discusses the topics of which application developers should be aware and provides a heuristic example to guide you in achieving separation of duties.
2009-06-04
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In the previous article we learned about SQL Server 2008 Extended Events terminology, components and took a look at a simple example. In this article we'll take a deeper look with some more complex examples.
2009-06-03
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Rodney Landrum, DBA manager in Pensacola, Florida, puts the pain of DBA:M into context as we learn about how SQL Backup can evolve to keep pace. Take a look at the changes we’ve got planned to help time-pressed DBAs in the forthcoming pre-release of version 6.0, including a new compression level and network resilience.
2009-06-02
2,217 reads
Learn how to get most of the formats required by different countries and applications, using one common date function.
2009-06-02
3,748 reads
SQL Server 2008 Extended Events are the new low level, high performance eventing system in SQL Server. They use less system resources and provide better tracking of SQL Server performance than previous methods like Perfmon and SQL Trace/Profiler events.
2009-06-02
2,515 reads
In February 2008, Microsoft announced a record-breaking data load using Microsoft® SQL Server® Integration Services (SSIS): 1 TB of data in less than 30 minutes. That data load, using SQL Server Integration Services, was 30% faster than the previous best time using a commercial ETL tool. This paper outlines what it took: the software, hardware, and configuration used. We will describe what we did to achieve that result, and offer suggestions for how to relate these techniques to typical scenarios.
2009-06-01
7,208 reads
You may have a number of jobs scheduled and often there is the need to analyze the data to see which jobs are taking a long time or which job steps are taking a long time. As you add more jobs and overhead to the server these times become even more critical and analyzing the data is key.
2009-05-29
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Learn about the new storage format for storing decimal and numeric data in SQL Server 2005 SP2. Details include when and how to enable vardecimal storage format, restrictions, space savings, and its impact on the performance of your workload.
2009-05-29
2,475 reads
It is Friday, the queries are running, and nobody is watching the bill. That...
By Steve Jones
Annabel retired from Redgate Software this week. Across most of my career at Redgate,...
By Tim Radney
As a SQL Server DBA with years of experience tuning production environments, I’ve seen...
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