Sometimes it would be helpful to run scripts from a command line for Analysis Services. This would be useful for things like creating backups, processing data or running other tasks. Is there a command line tool like sqlcmd for multidimensional databases and Data Mining?
2012-06-18
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SQL Server Reporting Services allows you to embed indicators and Gauges in your report to analyze the data and its state. Indicators are minimal gauges that convey the state of a single data value at a glance and are mostly used to represent state value of Key Performance Indicator (KPI).
2012-06-15
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Prefetching can make a surprising difference to SQL Server query execution times where there is a high incidence of waiting for disk i/o operations, but the benefits come at a cost. Mostly, the Query Optimizer gets it right, but occasionally there are queries that would benefit from tuning.
2012-06-14
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After designing several SSRS reports based on regular relational databases, your boss would now like several new reports to be designed and rolled out to production based on your organization's SSAS OLAP cube. How do you get started with designing a report based on a cube?
2012-06-13
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If you are trouble-shooting an AlwaysOn Availability Group topology, a study of the wait statistics will give a pointer to many of the causes of problems. Although several wait types are documented, there is nothing like practical experiment to familiarize yourself with new wait stats, and Joe Sack demonstrates a way of testing the sort of waits generated by an availability group under various circumstances.
2012-06-12
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Among the many new features released in SQL Server 2012 is FileTable, which facilitates database storage of file and directory storage.
2012-06-11
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In this excerpt from his book Troubleshooting SQL Server: A Guide for the Accidental DBA, Jonathan Kehayias provides a guide to identifying the causes, reacting to, and ultimately preventing the dreaded deadlock.
2012-06-08
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This paper introduces the security model for tabular BI semantic models in SQL Server 2012. You will learn how to create roles, implement dynamic security, configure impersonation settings, manage roles, and choose a method for connecting to models that works in your network security context.
2012-06-07
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Marcin Policht examines SSIS 2012 package and project configurations, which offer different ways of modifying values of variables and parameters without having to directly edit content of the packages and projects of which they are a part.
2012-06-06
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2012-06-06 (first published: 2012-05-31)
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If I create a multiple column Primary Key constraint, what is the most number of bytes I can include in the constraint?
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