Marcin Policht continues his discussion of various types of actions that can be performed using XML Control Flow task, focusing this month on the operation type called XPATH.
2007-02-19
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Gregory Larsen demonstrates several examples of how to deal with different situations related to the case of character strings.
2007-02-16
2,757 reads
Use IsAncestor() to support conditional logic within calculations. BI Architect Bill Pearson introduces IsAncestor(), and then leads a hands-on practice session with this valuable MDX function.
2007-02-15
2,480 reads
Your development system might be as valuable as your servers, but is it worth setting up with RAID? Read an interesting argument from one of the largest custom computer builder.
2007-02-14
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2007-02-13
2,755 reads
In this presentation at the Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group, Bayer White playS the part of a developer protecting his application and Brian Knight attempts to hack his application using SQL Injection and cross-site scripting. Then, Bayer will show you how to protect yourself from the hacker and then Brian tries again. Back and forth the chess match goes until someone wins!
2007-02-12
5,265 reads
The SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plan Wizard offers many core tasks and options for database housekeeping. In addition, the wizard will roll all of your selected tasks into a reusable and customizable package. Read on to learn more.
2007-02-09
2,723 reads
In this session, Kathi continues her popular series and shows some of the more advanced joining techniques in T-SQL. She shows T-SQL self, outer and cross joins and gives many examples on how to use them.
2007-02-08
5,022 reads
Relational Data Warehouse or Reporting work loads are characterized by low volumes of very large transactions. These applications are often identified as having predominately read workloads (e.g. Decision Support, Analysis, and Reporting) with periodic feeds or batch loads. It is important to keep these characteristics in mind as we examine the significance of database design, resource utilization and system performance. The top performance bottlenecks or gotchas to avoid for Data Warehouse or Reporting applications are outlined below.
2007-02-08
2,615 reads
A whitepaper on getting the best performance from your system.
2007-02-07
2,567 reads
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After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
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