Reblog: February 1 to February 7
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-02-08
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Executive Visibility for DBAs: Use SQL 2008 Row+Page Compression, or SQL 2005 (SP2+) vardecimal Conversion, to Reduce Space ($/GB SAN) & Logical Reads
One of the great features available since SQL 2008 is Row and/or Page Compression. However, even for those of you on SQL...
2013-02-08
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 8 (Working with Snippets in the ISE)
Welcome to Day 8 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-08
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Erin Welker joins Artis Consulting
Earlier this week, my employer, Artis Consulting, welcomed a new addition to our team. Technical expert Erin Welker (b|t), a...
2013-02-08
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SQL Server – Cycle Error Logs for SQL Server and SQL Server Agent
SQL Server error logs can fill up quickly, and when you are troubleshooting something you may need to go through...
2013-02-08
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MDX #25 – Slicer or Sub-Cube?
Slicer, Axes and Calculations Can All Filter Data in MDX
Every developer with SQL background knows how the WHERE clause works....
2013-02-08
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SSAS How-To: Create Dynamic Time Calculations To Reuse Over Any Measure
Rather than making individual time calculations for each measure in an SSAS cube (i.e. YTD, Prior YTD, YTD Variances, etc), one can use a more dynamic approach to time calcs applicable to all...
2013-02-07
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SSAS How-To: Create Dynamic Time Calculations To Reuse Over Any Measure
Rather than making individual time calculations for each measure in an SSAS cube (i.e. YTD, Prior YTD, YTD Variances, etc), one can...
2013-02-07
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SSRS How-To: Simple Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets
SSRS Tip: Simplest Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets I recently ran across a poorly covered topic in regards SSRS development using MDX parameters and datasets. After...
2013-02-07
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SSRS How-To: Simple Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets
SSRS Tip: Simplest Method to Pass MDX Multi-Select Parameters to MDX Datasets
I recently ran across a poorly covered topic in regards...
2013-02-07
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Blogs
Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments–Day of Data Boston
By Steve Jones
Here are the resources for my talk at Day of Data Boston. Slides –...
The Book of Redgate:A Prehistory
By Steve Jones
I’ve covered the values in a number of previous posts on the Book of...
Evidence-bound: what AgentDBA will and won’t link
By Arun Sirpal
When the evidence names the database, it says so. When it doesn’t, it stops....
Forums
SQL Server Storage Optimization: Multiple Files in a Filegroup vs Dedicated File
Hello, I would like to get some feedback regarding the best storage optimization strategy...
Azure SQL Database Event Log Limitations
Hi, Do you know if there is a way to get more detailed logging...
Four Rules for Adding AI Without Breaking What Already Works
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Four Rules for Adding AI...
Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas III
In an Azure SQL Database Hyperscale Edition, how many named replicas can be configured?
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