Although adding multiprocessing capabilities to applications is labor-intensive and error-prone, adding multicore capability to SQL query processing can be automatic, benefiting huge numbers of applications with little developer effort.
2009-04-02
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Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on error handling techniques that leverage Service Broker's transactional nature. This article describes Poison Message detection characteristics and presents an example demonstrating its use.
2009-04-02
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Too many authors in the field of relational theory have neglected the concept of Cardinal Reciprocity. This can cause a number of subtle problems with database design in terms of its derivability, redundancy, and consistency. . Increasingly, this little-understood aspect of relational theory, that emphasises the cardinality of the attributes of tuples in a relation and the reciprocity with isomorphic foreign key restraints, is becoming a hot forum topic.
2009-04-01
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Many SQL Server developers and DBAs have, in the past, had their own favourite diagnostic Stored Procedures for investigating blocking issues. But since SQL Server 2005, it's a good idea to use the SQL Profiler for all but the most complex problems. Brad McGehee takes us through the steps...
2009-03-31
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This article introduces the reader to Powershell. The application that it demonstrates is one that monitors SQL Server Agent to make sure it is running.
2009-03-31
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One of the main features of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (BIP) is its ability to connect to pretty much every major RDBMS on the market. Steve Callan shares the little documented steps of how to establish a connection to SQL Server.
2009-03-30
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Most SQL Server users drop one object at a time using either SSMS or a single drop statement. In many scenarios we may need to drop several objects of the same type. Is there a way to drop several objects through less lines of code?
2009-03-30
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Why does DBCC CHECKDB find corruption errors that disappear? Does tempdb really cause performance issues? Are there any drawbacks to using the FILESTREAM datatype? Paul Randal answers these reader questions and more.
2009-03-27
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Operations Manager has stacks of reports to help you monitor your applications' uptime, but reporting can be difficult until you understand all the different options, parameters, and the structure of the Operations Manager health model. Firstly, you need a clear idea about the way that your organization defines 'uptime', and only then you can start your reports. Thomas LaRock explains...
2009-03-27
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Gail Shaw, the fabled 'gilamonster', earned her MVP and the gratitude of a host of SQL Server professionals seeking technical help with her expert forum posts on SQLServerCentral. She brings great enthusiasm to everything she does, and has a huge influence on the communities she joins.
2009-03-25
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By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
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