Just SQL Part I
How many of you have asked yourself what SQL is all about anyway? Join me as I begin a venture down the road of understanding SQL and how to take advantage of this language.
2005-07-22
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Additional Articles
What can .NET code do from within SQL Server: Safety levels
The following excerpt, courtesy of Addison-Wesley, is from Chapter 6 of the book "A First Look at SQL Server 2005 for Developers" written by Bob Beauchemin, Niels Berglund and Dan Sullivan.
2005-07-21
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AMO Lets You Dig Deeper into Your Data from Your Own Applications
AMO lets developers put their own programs into action. It facilitates client-side custom programming as Decision Support Objects (DSO), the object model in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services. With AMO, a whole range of data mining questions can be answered at the operational level. This means that sales and marketing departments get answers more quickly and thus can make informed decisions. Specialized resources, like the IT team and analysts, can be brought in when they're needed most.
2005-07-20
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Optimize SQL Server hardware performance
Tuning SQL Server for performance is in many ways like constructing a house. You must find a suitable location with rich soil, build a solid foundation to support two or three levels, install the electrical and plumbing, finish the walls for painting and decorating, and finally conduct ongoing maintenance.
2005-07-19
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Data Portion and Used threshold
When Database Administrators manage multiple databases on multiple servers, it is difficult to keep track of and monitor the used percentage of data portion on every database. Though SQL Server has the capability of auto growth whenever the data portion reaches 100%, it is always advisable to increase the database size manually when it comes to VLDB. This article examines monitoring the percentage used on the data portion of every database and alerting the DBA using threshold settings. This article has been written for SQL Server 2000 server.
2005-07-18
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A New Way of Thinking
Every organization both maintains and uses reference data sets within its enterprise. And in many of these organizations, there are standards about the definition and use of that reference data, although sometimes those standards are at best silently understood instead of specifically documented. Yet even in the best governed environment, that reference data is bound to eventually be abused, either through value set perturbation or extended usage expectations.
2005-07-15
2,478 reads
Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services - P
Microsoft provides the most comprehensive integrated business intelligence, data mining, analysis and reporting solution with its state of the art Microsoft SQL Server Analysis services and Microsoft SQL Server reporting services. With the modern architecture design based on XML web services, SQL Server Reporting Services provides highly flexible, scalable, customizable and high performance reporting solution in a cost effective way. This article is a developer's introduction to SQL server reporting services, its functionality and how it can be used to provide state of the art reporting solutions.
2005-07-14
2,764 reads
A First Look at Express Manager
Microsoft describes its new, free SQL Server 2005 Express Manager (XM) as a "lightweight" database management tool built on top of the .NET Framework 2.0. Better yet, not only can you use XM to manage SQL Server 2005 Developer and Express Edition databases on local and remote computers, you can also use it with SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) databases. In this article, Rick Dobson shows you what XM offers DBAs.
2005-07-13
3,330 reads
SQL backup encryption
Judging by mainstream news coverage over the past few weeks, the issue of data theft, particularly loss of backup tapes, has reached the tipping point. It might mean that your relatively anonymous existence within your company could come to a screeching halt.
A look at how encrpytion might be if importance to your company.
2005-07-12
2,583 reads
SQL Server Integration Services - Loop Containers
As we briefly mentioned in the previous installment of this series, among features introduced in the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services there are For and ForEach loops, implemented in the form of containers that can be incorporated into the Control Flow part of a package design.
2005-07-12
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