See an example of using the Many-to-Many dimension in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services to analyze sales data, and get ideas for other uses such as treating medical conditions, software testing, and more.
2005-06-28
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Getting started with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services or the new report controls in Visual Studio 2005? Brian Welcker demonstrates some tips and tricks that you can use to add interactive features to your own reports.
2005-06-27
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An important consideration, when designing a Business Intelligence system within any environment, is a consideration for "where to put the intelligence" among the various "layers" within the system. I have stated many times in the past, in both articles and presentations, that "multi-layered reporting solutions require multi-layered architects," and nowhere is this truer than within the design and implementation of the Microsoft integrated business intelligence solution. This article provides an excellent example of such considerations: the option for placing a needed calculation at either the Analysis Services level (within the cube structure) or the Reporting Services level.
2005-06-24
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This white paper provides an introduction to various features of XQuery implemented in SQL Server 2005 such as the FLWOR statement, operators in XQuery, if-then-else construct, XML constructors, built-in XQuery functions, type casting operators, and examples of how to use each of these features. Non-supported features of XQuery in SQL Server 2005 and workarounds are described in this article. It also presents three scenarios where XQuery is useful.
2005-06-23
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Shredding a recordset in this instance means that we are going to show you how to take a recordset produced in your SSIS package, loop over the rows in that recordset, break apart the columns and do something with them. This is really useful when you want to preform an action on a row of data for every row of data just like we are going to do here. Sure we could use an ExecuteSQL task to get the recordset as well but that does limit our choices of source data whereas doing it in the pipeline does not. Something useful we hope.
2005-06-21
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InfoPath forms can be saved to XML, these XML Files can later be used in SSIS XMLSource adapter to pull out the data in tables and columns. However, there are some common problems you may meet in these scenarios. This article describes how to work around these potential problems. The issues mentioned in this article is not only specific to InfoPath files, it can also be referenced in other similar situations as well.
2005-06-20
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Even a cursory inspection of data management practice reveals that the majority of practitioners-–be they novices, or experienced, users or vendors--operate in a “cookbook”, product-specific mode, without really knowing and understanding the fundamental concepts and principles underlying their field, e.g. what data means, what data model, database, DBMS, data independence really are, and so on.
2005-06-17
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This article presents a broad set of guidelines to define the value, voice and visibility for a unified BI project.
2005-06-16
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This is the third article of our series discussing SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS), which provides Extraction, Transformation, and Loading features, replacing Data Transformation Services (DTS) available in SQL Server 2000 and 7.0. We have already presented an overview of the basic concepts necessary to design and implement SSIS-based projects. We have also stepped through the creation of one such project using Business Intelligence Development Studio. Our sample SSIS package, described in our previous article, delivered the basic functionality we needed (running an external process and loading the outcome of its execution stored temporarily in a text file into a database), however, it had one major shortcoming - a lack of support for reusability.
2005-06-15
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In the first article of this series, we presented the basic concepts relevant to understanding SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, which is the primary mechanism for Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) functionality available in SQL Server 2005. We also provided a quick overview of tools that allow you to manage such activities as DTS package design, development, and storage, as well as interactive and scheduled execution. In order to gain better familiarity with each of these activities, we will look at them from a more practical perspective, using a number of fairly straightforward examples.
2005-06-14
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By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers