SQL is a powerful tool for querying data, and for aggregating it. However, you can't easily use it to draw inferences, to make predictions, or to tease out subtle correlations. To provide ever more sophisticated inferences to businesses, the race is on to combine the power of the relational model with advanced statistical packages. Both IBM and PostGres are ready with solutions. And SQL Server? Hmm...
Steve Jones has a short piece today, about an announcement coming today at 10am PST during the PASS Summit.
Setting up multi-node clustered SQL instances from scratch is common practice for companies that want to implement high availability, but adding a new node to an existing clustered SQL instance that has been running for a while may have a few sticking points, especially for a SQL 2005 instance.
My first day in Seattle has ended. My flight arrived around 12:30 and I was in good company with John Lang and Julie Smith on the same flight. We rode the light rail...
The SQLServerCentral 2011 Party at the Summit is getting bigger and bigger. See if you are on the list, and if not, learn how to get your ticket.
A change at the PASS Summit this year has Steve Jones watching to see if it works out well for attendees and speakers.
Data analysis from a cube starts with aggregated and summarized data, followed by drill-down and drill-through of the data for a deeper and intelligent analysis. Drill down is inherently supported when you browse the data of the cube, but drill through has to be defined as per the requirements of analysis. In this tip we will see how to enable drill through on a cube.
This editorial was originally published on Sept 12, 2006. The IRS makes a $318mm mistake and Steve talks about the need to ensure that you don't do something similar.
This article shows an interesting issue with foreign keys and how they are aligned with the base tables in SQL 2005 SP 4.
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One of the things I’ve been requesting for a number of years is cost...
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Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
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