A Lack of SQL
Steve Jones talks about a company looking to write all their stored procedures using the CLR in SQL Server. Is this a good idea?
A Lack of SQL
Steve Jones talks about a company looking to write all their stored procedures using the CLR in SQL Server. Is this a good idea?
A Lack of SQL
Steve Jones talks about a company looking to write all their stored procedures using the CLR in SQL Server. Is this a good idea?
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Is it 1995?
A bug in the SQL Server 2008 upgrade process has Steve Jones questioning the coding practices at Microsoft.
Attribute Member Keys – Pt 1: Introduction and Simple Keys
Join Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson as he kicks off an exploration of Attribute Member Keys, a continuation of a body of articles surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we introduce Attribute Member Keys, focusing upon the simple keys and their properties.
Best Practices for Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008
There is considerable evidence that successful data warehousing projects often produce a very high return on investment. Over the years a great deal of information has been collected about the factors that lead to a successful implementation versus an unsuccessful one. These are encapsulated here into a set of best practices, which are presented with particular reference to the features in SQL Server 2008.
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How Long is a Long I/O?
In SQL Server 2025, a long I/O is recorded in the error log with message 833. How long much an I/O request be outstanding before this message is written to the log?
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