Not Cool Enough for Firefox

I’m pretty consistently behind the curve on most things. It took three years for me to get into The Office...

SQL Resource

By now, I am sure that you are well aware of the Resource Database.  Starting with SQL Server 2005, a new system database was made available – the Resource...

SQL Resource

By now, I am sure that you are well aware of the Resource Database.  Starting with SQL Server 2005, a...

SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update #15

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2005 SP3 Cumulative Update 15, which is Build 9.0.4325. There are only six fixes included...

SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update 3

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2005 SP4 Cumulative Update 3, which is Build 9.0.5266. There are only five fixes listed...

SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 13

Microsoft has released  SQL Server 2008 SP1 Cumulative Update 13, which is Build 10.00.2816.00. I count twelve fixes listed in...

SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 3

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 3, which is Build 10.00.4279.00. I count 25 fixes listed in...

SSAS - Measures or Attributes in Multiple Display Folders

I had a client recently show me a neat little tip that I thought I would share.In the cube he...

SSAS errors: Errors in the metadata manager. The dimension with ID of ‘xxx’ referenced by the ‘yyy’ cube, does not exist.

When deploying or processing a cube or dimension you may encounter an error similar to this:

Errors in the metadata manager. The...

Statistics, row estimations and the ascending date column

SQL’s auto-updating statistics go a fair way to making SQL Server a self-tuning database engine and in many cases they...