I'm surprised nobody has mentioned power consumption. Our 2 yr old data center is out of power. Any new servers are on hold till something comes out. Were consolidating everything...

Way back from 1995-1997 I sold and repaired Apple system from a campus bookstore. This stands out in my mind as one of the worst jobs I ever had. And...

I once installed it on XP pro and it killed my cat.

I do not believe Analysis Services killed your computer. If you look at users and groups, you will see...

Sounds like you need to generate a formatted report. Have you looked at reporting services?

Or Crystal Reports? I use Crystal Reports, make the report, then use the Crystal Report exporter...

I agree, since you have to spend 3 years to figure out RMAN, spending an extra day and a half pricing out your server should be no problem right?

Maybe Oracle will make a new...

Never tried - fast food will kill you faster than slammer spreads. Anyway it depends on the port you have SQL on. According to Wayport FAQ (http://www.wayport.net/support/faq):

Does Wayport...

Yes you would need another license. the license if for the same machine. You can put analysis services on a clustered box and just not cluster the app. If the...

Yup you end up having to make views for each of the distinct fields. So you double your work, then you build queries, you have queries that connect to views...

Anyone that has every done any reporting or built a datawarehouse off databases like this can tell you to avoid this generic lookup table. Imagine having a fact table with...

Are you the Avenue A that is constantly putting adware on people's computers?

Correct, your giving them the capability to make their own pivot tables.

The fact table is where the meat of the cube is. It should contain the things you want to...

Wow paradox, haven't heard that in some time. Moving your data will be moderately easy, you will have some data type issues to resolve however. You should be ODBC into...

Cubes are analytical tools. They answer simple questions like how many patients we saw on Tuesday at 8:00. Or how many widgets we sold. The idea is to get info...

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?