MSAS Architect Bill Pearson leads the hands-on creation of an exploded pie chart based upon an Analysis Service data source.

William Durkin, Serial Red Gate Beta Tester

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Testing

In this article sponsored by Red Gate, read about a beta tester's experience with new versions of SQL tools.

Downloading a file over HTTP the SSIS way

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Integration Services (SSIS)

This post shows you how to download files from a web site whilst really making the most of the SSIS objects that are available. There is no task to do this, so we have to use the Script Task and some simple VB.NET or C# (if you have SQL Server 2008) code

Over-Engineering

by Steve Jones

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Editorial - iPod

Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.

Over-Engineering

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial - WMV

Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.

Over-Engineering

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial - MP3

Steve Jones thinks that we often over-engineer software, trying too hard to consider every possibility rather than getting it close.

Testing with Profiler Custom Events and Database Snapshots

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Profiler

We've all had them. One of those stored procedures that is huge and contains complex business logic which may or may not be executed. These procedures make it an absolute nightmare when it comes to debugging problems because they're so complex and have so many logic offshoots that it's very easy to get lost when you're trying to determine the path that the procedure code took when it ran. Fortunately Profiler lets you define custom events that you can raise in your code and capture in a trace so you get a better window into the sub events occurring in your code.

Corporate Hackers

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

A report says that most of the data lost in corporations is from employees. What can be done about it? Steve Jones thinks we still have work to do in this area.