Business Intelligence is a "tip of the spear" IT role. Not only does it requires someone who has several years of general IT experience in a corporate environment, but it...

For consistency and ease of maintenance, you only want a calculation to be performed once. How far up in the stack a particular computed attribute is introduced depends on who...

One thing that can be said for single tier development tools like MS Access and FoxPro, they allow a developer to quickly stove pipe a complete functional solution without being...

If you havn't already, then read Kimball's book "Data Warehouse Toolkit", particularly chapter 2 which covers various standard approaches to fact and dimensional table design.

https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Complete-Dimensional/dp/0471200247

VB6 and even FoxPro applications still thriving and multiplying in some IT shops despite having no evolution in it's digital DNA for almost 20 years.

Aside from the probability that the physical model of a "code first" database will suffer (no proper indexing, poorly typed, etc.) another issue is that the logical model itself will...

I occasionally encounter SQL that was originally coded back in the early '90s, even though it has been migrated to newer hardware and RDMS platforms several times since. The way...

When I'm experimenting on some project at home, it's usually something vertical like loading my bank statement transactions into SSAS or programming a home automation controller. I'm not trying to...

It sounds like you have data corruption, but you can also try the following to quickly search for an object_id across a multiple databases.

exec sp_MsForEachDB

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USE ?;

print ''Searching ... ?''

print ''Found:...

In all fairness, it would be useful on occasion to have a feature, let's call it "Delayed Consistency", allowing one to perform multiple DML operations within an batch transaction, perhaps...

Compare the execution plan between the two servers for an identical query using same parameters.

If this ID is a sequential integer, then use IDENTITY.

Ask yourself whether some of these cost and price related columns should really be attributes in a dimension, not measures on a fact table.

To block all readers suring your insert operation, either the TABLOCK or TABLOCKX hint will work.

If developers struggle to install and manage SQL Server on their local PC, imagine if they were left to manage the production database server? I guess it's like a DBA...