Growing interest in analytics and the trend toward automated decision making will lead the business intelligence crowd toward the mix of mathematical and statistical techniques used by operations researchers.
2008-05-20
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I have heard that Full Text Search uses a noise words to eliminate meaningless words in searches. I have also heard that a thesaurus is used, but I am not exactly sure how. Can you provide some details related to how both of these technologies are used in Full Text Search? I am interested in more of a background on these specific Full Text Search technologies as well as where the files are located and how I can update them.
2008-05-19
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This article illustrates different methods to insert data into a table, including the new Row Value Constructor, which simplifies the data insertion.
2008-05-16
3,194 reads
As we are reviewing the new features in SQL Server 2008, we found one that looks really interesting - Policy-Based Management. Could you help us to understand how this works and provide some examples? Can you please explain each of the components and how to manage them in the interface and with commands?
2008-05-16
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Any time you need to modify objects in your SQL Server 2005 database, the objects that are dependent upon those objects are a concern. You don't want to remove columns from tables, procedures, views, or tables if there are objects dependent upon them that are being used.
2008-05-15
2,960 reads
Create DDL table in SQL Server 2005 to audit Data Definition Language (DDL) trigger events when DML statements run. Define DDL trigger to track SQL changes.
2008-05-15
3,467 reads
This article describes what the dimension manager and fact provider do, and how to configure business intelligence tools to use the integrated EDW.
2008-05-14
2,226 reads
In a previous tip we saw how easy it was to link to SQL Server tables from Microsoft Access. As is the case with all systems, how does Access manage the changes? What happens when you modify the structure of the underlying SQL Server table? What happens to the SQL Server table if you delete the linked table in Access? We will look at each of these situations in this tip.
2008-05-14
3,960 reads
This article provides guidance to what an integrated EDW is and what design elements are needed to achieve integration.
2008-05-13
2,998 reads
This article examines the built in reports called SQL Server Management Studio Reports and an additional add-on called Performance Dashboard.
2008-05-13
5,062 reads
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I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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