My online series of articles has been focused on the need for businesses to "get serious" about their approach to developing an enterprise business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) capability. When pursuing this capability it is important to adopt a holistic view, followed by disciplined investment and execution.
2007-10-26
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Learn how to use PowerShell in conjunction with SMO to Generate an SQL Server Script.
2007-10-26
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SQL programming guru Joe Celko offers a classification scheme and advice on using the right keys.
2007-10-25
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Part 8 of our series provides an overview of User Instance model (also known as “Run As Normal User” or simply RANU) and automatic database connectivity, which serve as two primary enablers for XCopy deployment, facilitating distribution of single-user databases.
2007-10-25
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What is the best way to return the "duration" of an event in SQL, given the start and end datetime values? How can we add up these durations to return grand totals? What data types should be used to return this data to our clients? How do we handle overflows, such as when hours go over 23 or minutes total up to over 59? Are there any T-SQL functions or other techniques that are useful in these scenarios?
2007-10-24
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From one of the SQL Server 2005 storage engine lead developers comes this look at the impact of using the NO_LOG and TRUNCATE_ONLY options.
2007-10-24
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This installment illustrates how to use PowerShell in conjunction with SMO to display object properties of all SQL Server Objects.
2007-10-23
2,594 reads
When designing your SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS) dimensions and related attributes—appropriately called attribute relationships—you should consider how changes in your dimension data will affect the underlying dimension aggregations and, in turn, processing and query performance.
2007-10-22
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Connecting to SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services could lie in the memory settings. Get possible problems and solutions to connect to Analysis Services server.
2007-10-22
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The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a National Institute of Standards and Technology specification for the encryption of electronic data. It is expected to become the accepted means of encrypting digital information, including financial, telecommunications, and government data. This article presents an overview of AES and explains the algorithms it uses. Included is a complete C# implementation and examples of encrypting .NET data. After reading this article you will be able to encrypt data using AES, test AES-based software, and use AES encryption in your systems.
2007-10-19
2,427 reads
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