There is a good chance that the process of purchasing software or hardware in your organization involves several people. DBAs will often initiate a request, but are not normally trained in the arts of influencing the management decision process to ensure that essentials get purchased. It is becoming essential to understand how to get Management support for software purchases. Dan offers nuggets of wisdom.
2009-03-11
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Continuing our series on our "Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2008 AMO," Part 8 covers how to process a dimension in an Analysis Service database using Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2008 AMO.
2009-03-11
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Windows Server 2008 has a lot of differences from its previous versions and one of them is the clustering feature. How do I go about building a clustered SQL Server 2008 running on Windows Server 2008?
2009-03-10
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For a book project I am working on, I have started compiling a list of reasons why heaps aren't usually a good choice when designing a database. Now, I didn't say that heaps are always bad, but in most cases, I think they should be avoided so pleae read the list to see why.
2009-03-10
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Debugging capability in SSMS was a long sought feature by users and finally the Microsoft SQL Server team decided to provide this feature in SQL Server 2008.
2009-03-09
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SCHEMA BINDING is commonly used with SQL Server objects like views and User Defined Functions (UDF). The main benefit of SCHEMA BINDING is to avoid any accidental drop or change of an object that is referenced by other objects. A User Defined Function (UDF) may or may not access any underlying database objects, but in this tip we show how using SCHEMA BINDING with a UDF can improve performance even if there are no underlying objects.
2009-03-09
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Check out this collection of best practices, troubleshooting advice and perfomance tips for working with SSRS in SQL Server 2005.
2009-03-06
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This article shows how Microsoft Office Visio 2007 can be used to visualize cube data created using SSAS
2009-03-06
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I have heard that there is a new version of Report Builder in SQL Server 2008. Can you provide some details and examples?
2009-03-05
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SSAS Architect Bill Pearson examines another intrinsic member property, LEVEL_UNIQUE_NAME, which allows us to exercise a great deal of presentation “sleight of hand” in working with MDX in Analysis Services, as well as within Reporting Services and various other reporting applications that can access an Analysis Services cube.
2009-03-05
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