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  • RE: Can anyone let me know why not so many companies choose SSAS for data analysis and base layer for dashboard?

    SSAS is a service for data warehousing.

    Pre-aggregation of measures along dimensions makes querying the data faster. Dimensional cubes instead of normalized tables make analyzing the data more efficient and...

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  • RE: Enlisted or Drafted? Share your experience.

    Neither. More like I wasn't watching my feet, tripped, and landed face-first on a big pile of DBA.

    My first rude awakening on it was how unclear basic terminology was...

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  • RE: Stored Proc to split data in two

    The easiest way would be to use a row_number, and odd rows on the left, even on the right. Thus, in a 3-element list: 1 & 3 on the...

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  • RE: hierachy with miltiple parent

    Does PID somehow translated to "historical" versus "present" in your question?

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  • RE: View Help

    Glad we could help.

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  • RE: View Help

    Non-recursive CTEs, and CTEs that don't reference prior CTEs, are functionally identical to classic derived tables in the From clause. There's no difference between the two in those cases....

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  • RE: 0 is equal to zero length string. Can someone explain how this can be?

    CELKO (8/5/2012)


    I would have to do some digging for exact rules, but this is a T-SQL dialect error. The conversion should fail with a message that the string cannot be...

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  • RE: View Help

    asm1212 (8/7/2012)


    No I am not familiar with CTE's...I have never worked with them!

    Does the sample I posted help?

    The documentation is here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175972.aspx

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  • RE: View Help

    asm1212 (8/7/2012)


    Guys,

    This has gotten overblown...

    When I first posted that sample code stuff and realized it wasnt formatted once I finished posting, I remembered that there was a specific way yall...

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  • RE: Stupid Interviewer Tricks

    On the republish (7 Aug 12), the link is broken, but from the editorial and discussion make it clear enough what it was about originally.

    If an interviewer tried the "you're...

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  • RE: Discussion: is e-Commerce making a mockery of SQL Server?

    Boltz442 (8/6/2012)


    Would I be correct in saying that decreased data replication is a major reason why normalisation and foreign keys decrease storage requirements?

    Yes.

    Of course, the amount it's decreased depends on...

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  • RE: Remove redundant data from address column

    Phil Parkin (8/6/2012)


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    Abu Dina (8/3/2012)


    Thinking about this more, I wonder if the following will work.

    Street names in the UK tend to end with words like Street, Avenue, Crescent etc,...

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  • RE: Date Format Problem

    vinu512 (8/6/2012)


    calvo (8/6/2012)


    what is the collation and data type of the field storing the current date?

    Collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

    DataType: DateTime

    GSquared (8/6/2012)


    Dates in SQL Server aren't stored in any of those formats. ...

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  • RE: Tempdb log file location and Filegroup optimizations

    I guess it would depend on what you mean by "3 disks". If I only had access to three physical disks, I'd set it all up as a single...

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  • RE: Why It's Good To Be Wrong

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    GSquared (8/6/2012)


    Complexities like these are one of the myriad of reasons I consider such systems horribly flawed in the vast majority of cases. They make documentation more...

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