In this article, David Leibowitz compares the performance of the prerelease of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services to SSRS 2005. While it is clear performance improvements have been made for report automation, developers might have differing opinions on the new Report Designer.
2008-05-05
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Part 15 of this series examines what cost is paid when tables are separated into multiple databases on the same server.
2008-05-05
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This document describes how Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 can be applied to common business problems. This document assumes some familiarity with MDX.
2008-05-02
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One of the issues you'll face with SQL Server is blocking which is caused by other processes that are holding locks on objects. Until the locks are removed on an object the next process will wait before proceeding. This is a common process that runs within SQL Server to ensure data integrity, but depending on how transactions are run this can cause some issues. Are there ways to get around blocking by using different indexes to cover the queries that may be running?
2008-05-02
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Set up SQL Server 2005 Service Broker for a messaging platform to queue data of stored procedures and functions. Configure Service Broker with these steps.
2008-05-01
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This article looks at the new Management Data Warehouse (MDW) that is incorporated into SQL Server 2008. This warehouse is performance analysis and capacity planning tool for DBAs. This article will discuss the basic architecture of the MDW and how to set it up using a wizard.
2008-05-01
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Sometimes the tools that Microsoft provides us with do not give us complete control over the organization of our environment. Such is the case with organizing SQL Agent Jobs. We are able to organize and sort jobs by a variety of factors:
2008-04-30
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Recent installments of this series have demonstrated SQL Server 2005 Express Edition's replication characteristics by taking advantage of replication-specific executables and T-SQL code combined with Windows Synchronization Manager and Web Synchronization technologies. This article explores another method of reaching the same goal, which involves Replication Management Objects (RMO).
2008-04-30
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Learn how to build robust Matrix-style reports in SQL Server Reporting Services. These advanced reporting techniques make it easier to build a fully-functional report.
2008-04-29
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In Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005 there are several ways of achieving the same result. This article introduces how we can create the same report using several different methods.
2008-04-29
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By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
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