SQLSaturday Bloopers
Traveling to Charlotte, NC for SQL Saturday #33, Steve Jones takes a break from writing with a short piece, and quite a few mistakes from this year.
Implementing User-Defined Hierarchies in SQL Server Analysis Services
To be able to drill into multidimensional cube data at several levels, you must implement all of the hierarchies on the database dimensions. Then you'll create the attribute relationships necessary to optimize performance. Analysis Services hierarchies offer plenty of possibilities for displaying the data that your business requires. Rob Sheldon continues his series on SQL Server Analysis Services 2008.
Mnesia: A Distributed DBMS Rooted in Concurrency
Find out what makes Mnesia, the Erlang-based database management system, perfect for distribution across a network of computers.
Should DBAs be Paid Overtime?
For the past several weeks, I have been running a poll on www.bradmcgehee.com, asking visitors if they thought that DBAs...
A Cheap Fix?
Does it make sense to set up another instance of SQL Server just for a power user? Is it a good use of resources? Steve Jones comments today on this DBA tool for enhancing performance.
Calculating Moving Averages with T-SQL
How to efficiently calculate moving averages with SQL Server using Stock Market data.
Multiplatform ODBC support for SQLServer
The Microsoft SQL Server Connectivity team has a survey on the need for ODBC support for other platforms. If you use SQL Server from other platforms, let them know.
Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 1
In this two part blog post we will demonstrate how to query an Oracle database from Powershell. Before we can...
Querying Oracle from Powershell Part 2
In part one we installed and configured the Oracle client software, in this post we will query an Oracle database...
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Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log
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Track SQL Server Configuration Changes Using the Error Log If you...
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SQL Server Showing Out of Space But Plenty of Drive Space
We have a SQL Server installed. We have a 500GB drive for the database....
Question of the Day
Creating a JSON Document IV
I have this data in a table called dbo.NFLTeams
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished ------ -------- ---- --------------- 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933 3 Packers Green Bay 1919 4 Chiefs Kansas City 1960 5 49ers San Francisco 1946 6 Broncos Denver 1960 7 Seahawks Seattle 1976 8 Patriots New England 1960If I run this code, how many rows are returned?
SELECT YearEstablished, json_objectagg(city : TeamName) FROM dbo.NFLTeams GROUP BY YearEstablished;See possible answers