A seemingly never-ending battle in online database forums involves the question of whether or not database application development should involve the use of stored procedures.
2006-06-08
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There is a lot of talk these days about “business intelligence” (BI for short). Pick up any magazine aimed at business or technology professionals, and you’re sure to read about things like data warehouses, dashboards, cubes, ETL, SCD, and a seemingly endless list of other specialized terms and acronyms. One might be left wondering, is this something to which I should be paying attention?
2006-06-06
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This (new) design bothered me. It violated one of the fundamentals that I'd learned and read about for years; namely keeping the primary key small and narrow. It also looked like it would be difficult to maintain. Finally, after arguing back and forth about the merits and drawbacks of each of the designs, we decided that testing them was the only way to be sure
2006-06-02
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The latest article in our series discusses improvements in the transactional support implemented in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. The more granular scope of transactions, which now can be assigned to arbitrarily designated Control Flow tasks and containers, makes it is possible to limit their impact or execute several of them in parallel. However, even with this improved functionality, you need to keep the blocking issues they might potentially introduce in mind.
2006-06-01
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Should IT managers understand technical issues, or is a full appreciation of the technology somehow unworthy and unnecessary for senior staff? In such a rapidly changing industry where fortunes are made and lost by attempting to exploit gaps in the market too thin to see with the naked eye, the answer would seem obvious. However, I have repeatedly come across amazing gaps in the technical knowledge of managers.
2006-05-31
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This project was done using SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (with SP1 beta) using the BULK INSERT command with 60 parallel input files, each of approximately 16.67 GB. The best time I got was 50 minutes. Hewlett Packard was kind enough to loan me some time one night on the machine they use to do the TPC-H tests. It is an Itanium2 Superdome with 64 1.6GHZ 9M (Madison) CPUs. For the insert tests the system was equipped with 256GB of RAM. The HP SAN configuration is rated at 14GB per second throughput.
2006-05-30
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At just about every talk I give I always try to make several consistent statements. One of which is: ‘Whenever possible use stored procedures to access your data’.
2006-05-29
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This is a good explanation on how to acctually bill a customer for your service over a credit card in your web application.
2006-05-26
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Continuing our coverage of topics dealing with various aspects of managing SQL Server 2005 Integration Services packages, which we started with an overview of their storage and deployment, we now turn our focus to their execution.
2006-05-25
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This article, published in the June 2005 issue of SIGMOD Record, provides an overview of SQL Server Data Mining from a standards perspective.
2006-05-24
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