SQL Server 2005 is an ideal database platform for use in shared and dedicated Web hosting environments. This paper provides best practices for configuring SQL Server 2005 to optimize security, tenant isolation, and the performance of your hosted SQL Server 2005 deployment. Sample scripts for provisioning users and databases for use in shared hosting are included.
2008-01-11
1,576 reads
Continuing on with his series on SQL Server table partitioning, Andy Warren takes a look at how partitioned views are handled when you query them.
2008-01-08
8,296 reads
Learn how to use an Analysis Services cube as a data source by using parameterized MDX queries, as well as how to localize label strings in a report, in SQL Server 2005.
2008-01-07
2,399 reads
The I/O system is important to the performance of SQL Server. When configuring a new server for SQL Server or when adding or modifying the disk configuration of an existing system, it is good practice to determine the capacity of the I/O subsystem prior to deploying SQL Server. This white paper discusses validating and determining the capacity of an I/O subsystem. A number of tools are available for performing this type of testing. This white paper focuses on the SQLIO.exe tool, but also compares all available tools. It also covers basic I/O configuration best practices for SQL Server 2005.
2008-01-04
3,111 reads
Backing up a database is one of the most important things you need to do when having a database driven application. It 's only all of your data in there, right? But often developers and management don't realize the importance of backups and overall proper backup strategy for the most important side of the business – data and it's consistency.
2008-01-03
4,487 reads
Greg Larsen discusses the different options available within SQL Server 2005 for managing security.
2008-01-01
2,853 reads
2007-12-28
2,922 reads
SQL Server 2005 provides four methods of encryption. Part one of this article covers encryption and decryption by passphrase.
2007-12-28
2,818 reads
Steve Jones shares a few tricks that might make it easier and quicker for you to work with SQL Server 2005 Management Studio
2007-12-24
7,975 reads
Processing is the operation in which the Analysis server reads data from the relational data source and populates the cubes, dimensions, mining models, etc. This whitepaper describes the Analysis Services 2005 processing architecture in detail and provides guidance on how and when to use the various processing controls.
2007-12-24
1,091 reads
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We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers