In this article, adapted from the just-published second edition of MDX Solutions that Chris co-authored with George Spofford, Siva Harinath, Dylan Hai Huang, and Francesco Civardi, Chris shows us how to start exploring the world of cubes and MDX Scripts.
2006-04-30
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When architects speak with database administrators, it is important they come forearmed. Tools can help. While Microsoft's own database management tools cover the most common database administration scenarios, they don't do anything about some of the most common pain points faced when you need to maintain and deploy SQL Server databases for projects under active development. That's where Red Gate comes in.
2006-04-28
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There is a world of difference between the business processes that really take place in a company and the management's understanding of those processes…
2006-04-27
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A SQL Server 2005 feature that I appreciate and want to demonstrate is the OUTPUT clause. The OUTPUT clause helps in returning the actual data from a table soon after an insert. Applications require return values such as the new identity value, the computed column value or the default value generated by the default constraint.
2006-04-26
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This article examines the problem of complex data in integration projects and presents solutions for handling this data to create seamless integration throughout the enterprise.
2006-04-25
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Testing is key to ensuring a process actually works when it comes time to implement, rather than finding out when time may be of the essence. This holds true for testing SQL Server restores as well.
2006-04-24
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A SELECT query returns results as a rowset. You can optionally retrieve formal results of a SQL query as XML by specifying the FOR XML clause in the query.
2006-04-19
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Throughout our series of articles dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, we have been working mainly with packages using the Business Intelligence Development Studio interface (although more recently, we also discussed SSIS-related functionality available in SQL Server Management Studio). Even though, as part of our exercises, we have worked with a number of packages, we have not yet explored the various options related to their storage. We will cover them in this article
2006-04-18
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In SQL Server 2005, you can explicitly or implicitly define the execution context. As we all know, a session starts when a user logs on to SQLServer or a connection to SQLserver is made. All operations in that session use the logon credentials used for connecting to SQL Server. When an EXECUTE AS statement is run, the execution context of the session is switched to the specified login or user name.
2006-04-17
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Have you started looking at what issues you might have migrating your existing applications to SQL Server 2005? If not then maybe as a first step, you should consider looking into what the SQL Server 2005 Upgrade Advisor can do for you. This article will discuss what the Upgrade Advisor is and how to use it.
2006-04-14
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Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
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