Why not do some benchmarking first to see if the disks really are the problem. Go to performance monitor and watch the Physical Disk: Avg. Disk Queue Length If these are...

Bigint in case they want miliseconds from 01/01/1970. Whats you client building/selling so I can avoid it in the future?

Do yourself a favor and do not store you date in Unix Date/Time. I am currently having to design reports out of a system that is Unix Date/Time and the...

For Salt Lake City:

SQL Server DBA market in Salt Lake is only luke warm. Now if you are a .net programmer with some SQL experience I can point you to...

I completely argee most users have no need for BI and most administrators/managers want such specific data when scrutinizing something that the cube is of little use. For the cost...

I agree a car is just a means of transportation. Maybe its a Brian thing. I went for the cross vehicle its a 03 Ford Focus wagon. I can fit...

This type of oil production is getting a lot of press lately and I think its a good idea, but burning oil from waste vs burning oil from the ground,...

Business Objects makes a toolkit for ESRI here's a whitepaper http://whitepaper.informationweek.com/cmpinformationweek/search/viewabstract/75268/index.jsp I saw it demonstrated and it was pretty neat, then I priced it out and was hit with sticker...

I often wonder where I would be. I have a BS and 3/4 of a MS in Forest Management. I was having troubles with my major professor during my MS,...

Hey when your done with this you could port it to Pocket PC and have it with you for those trips to the wine store, when you can't remember if...

Assuming in the second data source all your fieldnames ... are the same, you can add a second data source, then edit the cube, right click on the table and...

HIPAA is not that specific. You will need to do a risk analysis and if you believe your backups are insecure, then implement protection. If in your risk assessment you...

I got preview tickets for it last wed. It was entertaining. But very rapid fire, I suspect if I had not read the book, I would have missed a lot....

I used to work in the hospitals Neurosrgery Dept compiling CT and MRI scans into 3D models. No lie, in the operating room is a huge book titled "Neurosurgery" and there...

You could also use reporting services if you want to go down that road. Otherwise here's a pretty good article on sending html formatted emails as well.

200 columns is gonna...