In this article, we will take a look at the following Tips and Tricks for Connection Managers: Adding an "Application Name" property to the connection string; Creating Two Connection Managers for each Database Connection; and Capturing Connection Manager details in Package Configurations
2013-10-15
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There are a number of new features that became available with SQL Server 2014. One of the more exciting features is the new Memory-Optimized tables. In this article Greg Larson explores how to create Memory-Optimized tables, and what he's found during his initial exploration of using this new type of table.
2013-10-14
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Column Store Index, which improves performance of data warehouse queries several folds, was first introduced in SQL Server 2012. In this article series Arshad Ali talks about how you can get started with using enhanced columnstore index features in SQL Server 2014 and do some performance tests to understand the benefits.
2013-10-11
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SQL Server Clustered indexes can have enormous implications for performance of operations on a table. But are there times when a SQL Server non-clustered index would perform better than a clustered index for the same operation? Are there any trade-offs to consider? Check out this tip to learn more.
2013-10-10
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DBAs are expected to know how to administer the technologies that are available with and peripheral to SQL Server. To properly administer them, it certainly helps to understand the technology from the point of view of the user. By using an existing SSRS report as a data feed for Excel, Rodney Landrum explains how these users can now take advantage of development efforts in new ways.
2013-10-09
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Sometimes we have a T-SQL process that we need to run that takes some time to run or we want to run it during idle time on the server. We could create a SQL Agent job manually, but is there any simple way to create a scheduled job?
2013-10-08
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Following on from his first four articles on using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) with tabular databases, Robert Sheldon dives into some of the DAX statistical functions available, demonstrating which are the most useful and examples of how they work.
2013-10-07
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The Microsoft Performance Team discusses the steps in installing/configuring Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Services Licensing in your environment using various available options.
2013-10-04
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Marcus Robinson adapted PowerShell scripts by Thomas Lee to build a set of VMs to run a course in a reliable and repeatable way. With Marcus’s permission, Andrew Fryer has put that Setup Script on SkyDrive, and provided notes on the script.
2013-10-03
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With SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced a new licensing model; licensing per core replaced the licensing per processor. We need to adjust budget to reflect licensing changes for our next Enterprise Agreement renewal, but we do not have processor core information from any of our server inventory tools. This tip explains how to quickly gather information about each server's processor cores without logging in to each server.
2013-10-02
3,659 reads
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