After designing several SSRS reports based on regular relational databases, your boss would now like several new reports to be designed and rolled out to production based on your organization's SSAS OLAP cube. How do you get started with designing a report based on a cube?
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Is it worth writing your own software? Steve Jones says you ought to really think about it and perhaps spend time looking to buy something before you build a new application.
If you are trouble-shooting an AlwaysOn Availability Group topology, a study of the wait statistics will give a pointer to many of the causes of problems. Although several wait types are documented, there is nothing like practical experiment to familiarize yourself with new wait stats, and Joe Sack demonstrates a way of testing the sort of waits generated by an availability group under various circumstances.
Our 19th webinar will feature Brad McGehee talking about storage challenges, costs, and potential solutions for better managing your data. Tuesday, June 12, at 4:00pm GMT.
This editorial that was originally published on Aug 15, 2007. It is being rerun as Steve is traveling. This editorial looks at the issues that happen in production and how you should perhaps plan for disasters.
The Database Recovery Advisor in SQL Server 2012 will aid the ability of DBAs to recover their databases to a point in time in a crisis. Read about this new feature and how it can speed the process of recovery.
Database people are used to changing the hardware of the server on which a problem database resides, or making changes to indexes and database settings, but humans and their organisations are far more difficult to tune and optimise than databases.
Among the many new features released in SQL Server 2012 is FileTable, which facilitates database storage of file and directory storage.
This articles brings a comparison of temporary tables with table variables from SQL Server author, Wayne Sheffield. In includes an in-depth look at the differences between them.
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