A Cynic's Top Ten Tips for IT Contractors
As autumn approaches, Patrick Index produces his ten hot chestnuts for IT Contractors like himself, with a jaundiced 'contractor's-eye view'.
2007-09-26
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Miscellaneous
The Socialization of Knowledge
This article is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Business Metadata, to be published on or about September, 2007, co-authored by Bill Inmon, Bonnie O’Neil and Lowell Fryman, published by Morgan Kaufman.
2007-09-25
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Strategies for Testing Data Warehouse Applications
This article presents a strategy for testing ETL applications that perform data movement and populate data warehouses. It is useful information for the testing community as well as designers and managers charged with planning a data warehousing implementation.
2007-09-21
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Find Parent Child RelationShip
Many times with work with unknown databases, most of the time there is not a clear documentation of the relations between tables, however, with this script we are able to find the parent child relations in just a few seconds
2007-09-18
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Script to find text in stored procedures
This is a simple script that when used by command-line OSQL/ISQL can help you locate a stored procedure.How many times have you been looking for stored procedure code and could not find it? This is a simple method to locate lost code.When you manage many database servers this can become a common problem. The scenario […]
2007-09-14
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Combine multiple rows into single output
We can use this function to combine multiple rows into single one. Generally to create comma separated list for each unique item. So this can create comma separated product list for any given category. The same can be used to make a list of items in a given order.ThanksMohit Nayyarhttp://mohitnayyar.blogspot.com/
2007-09-14
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LSTR() and RSTR(): Enhanced LEFT() and RIGHT()
Quite often I need to cut off the first (or last) few characters of a string. To do just that I created two functions LSTR() and RSTR().Syntax: LSTR( @stringtocut, @length )Note: @stringtocut is trimmed in the functionWhen @length is equal or larger than zero, this function performs the same as LEFT( LTRIM(RTRIM(@stringtocut)), @length ).When @length […]
2007-09-13
1,595 reads
Making the Most of Operational Analytics with Enterprise Decision Mana
EDM solutions are a logical and often necessary complement to operational analytics.
2007-09-11
1,296 reads
What Specification Server Should I Buy?
Simon Sabin is always cagey about giving advice on the sort of hardware to run SQL Server on, but admits to some general rules.
2007-09-10
4,327 reads
finding the blocks in sql server
Hai buddies,The following procedure can be used to find whether there are any blocks in the sql server.The procedure if run in Master database , can be used like any other system stored procedure from any database.The output of the proc will contain the followingSPID OF RUNNING APPLICATIONAPPLICATION NAMEEXECUTING DATABLOCKED (Y/N)BLOCKING SPIDBLOCKING APPLICATIONEXECUTING DATA (BLOCKING […]
2007-09-09
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