Recent installments of our series dedicated to the most prominent features of SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have discussed its reporting capabilities. This article illustrates another approach to generating reports, relying on the Report Server Project template, which offers a considerably wider range of flexibility than its wizard-driven counterpart does.
2009-06-18
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This document describes common data warehouse implementation strategies and proposes an effective hub-and-spoke architecture using a massively parallel processing system with multiple instances of SQL Server databases.
2009-06-17
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Learn about the advantages available for SQL Server consolidation and virtualization when running SQL Server 2008 on Microsoft Hyper-V for Windows 2008.
2009-06-17
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Follow the rules to ensure granular data, flexibility and a future-proofed information resource. Break the rules and you'll confuse users and run into data warehousing brick walls.
2009-06-16
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Many DBAs at some point have had to deal with a full transaction log. Check out these steps for finding the cause to quickly solve the problem.
2009-06-15
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This paper provides IT pros with an in-depth look at the tests conducted by the MSCOM Ops team, insight into the results, and technical analysis of the enhancements to Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 that enable wide area network (WAN)–based geo-replication.
2009-06-12
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Authenticators are additional data that gets encrypted along with the data to be stored in an encrypted manner. When it comes to decrypt the data, if the right authenticator isn't specified, SQL Server doesn't return the data in the decrypted form. Rather, a NULL value is returned, just as if the wrong key was used.
2009-06-12
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I would like to translate some of the Transact-SQL scripts that I use every day, starting with the simple ones like retrieving a list of databases and their properties for auditing purposes.
2009-06-11
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The FOR XML clause in SQL Server causes a lot of difficulty, mainly because it is rather poorly explained in Books-on-Line. We challenged Bob Sheldon to make it seem simple. Here is his sublime response.
2009-06-11
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This white paper describes the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008, which allows storage of and efficient access to BLOB data using a combination of SQL Server 2008 and the NTFS file system. It covers choices for BLOB storage, configuring Windows and SQL Server for using FILESTREAM data, considerations for combining FILESTREAM with other features, and implementation details such as partitioning and performance.
2009-06-10
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