Dimensional Databases: Building A Data Warehouse
A basic look at how you can start to build a data warehouse. This has some basics you need to do the design of the various fact and dimension tables.
2004-09-27
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Additional Articles
Not All SQL Server Indexes Are Created Equal
Just because a column has an index doesn't mean the SQL Server Query Analyzer will use it. Learn how to create indexes SQL Server will use.
2004-09-24 (first published: 2001-04-22)
4,826 reads
Systems Thinking
J.D. Edwards was big on Systems Thinking, a way of looking at your systems and improving their functions. It was applied it to IT to become one of the top IT organizations to work for. Read some of these articles for an overview of how this works.
2004-09-24
2,685 reads
A Survey of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 XML Features
An oldy, but good basic look at XML and how it fits into SQL Server 2000.
2004-09-23
3,008 reads
The SQL of OLAP
A look at how OLAP and Anlysis services might fit into your business and some things to think about when a business intelligence system might be right for you.
2004-09-22
2,400 reads
Scanning the network for SQL Server
Have you ever wondered how many SQL Servers are on your network? Need their versions for patches, reporting, etc? Read about this technique for easily scanning for all the servers that are installed.
2004-09-21
1,691 reads
Index on multiple columns for performance
A short piece on indexing using multiple columns. For those of you that have 10 single column indexes, read a little about why you might choose to index on multiple columns.
2004-09-20
2,877 reads
Messaging Patterns in Service-Oriented Architecture, Part 1
A service oriented architecture seeks to decouple some of the tight connections normally built between systems and components. Here's a great overview on how messaging between systems can be setup from MSDN.
2004-09-20
1,216 reads
Microsoft, SQL Server and Performance Management: The Business Scoreca
The first article looking at the new BI scorecard technology from Microsoft. This allows you to quickly deploy some easy reports on your OLAP system. From datawarehouse.com.
2004-09-16
1,121 reads
Redistributing DTS with your program
Have you ever wanted to run DTS on a workstation or server that doesn't have SQL installed? Here's the items you need to move to make it happen.
2004-09-15
1,549 reads
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Question of the Day
Detecting Characters
I have a SQL Server 2022 English default installation on a server. I want to detect if there are any upper case characters in rows and I have this code:
SELECT CustomerNameID,
CustomerName
FROM dbo.CustomerName
WHERE CustomerName = LOWER(CustomerName)
Here is the sample data I am testing with:
CustomerNameID CustomerName 1 John Smith 2 Sarah Johnson 3 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 4 JENNIFER BROWN 5 david jones 6 emily davis 7 Robert Miller 8 LISA WILSON 9 christopher moore 10 Amanda TaylorHow many rows are returned? See possible answers