Creating a Data Mining Reporting Services Report - SQL School Video
In this new SQL School video, MVP Brian Knight shows us how to get started with data mining and Reporting Services retrieving data from an Analysis Services cube.
Generate a SQL Server Instance Inventory
How many times has someone asked you to determine how many instances of SQL Server are installed on your network? New author Sakthivel Chidambaram brings us a few tricks for keeping track of those installations.
Positive Blogging
Blogging is increasingly becoming a part of more and more people's lives. But to what extent should it be part of your corporate image? Steve Jones has a few comments about a very interesting blog he found.
Administrator & Monitoring Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008
This article explores how a DBA can administer and monitor Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008
Capturing SQL Server 2005 database file size information
It's very important to capture trends of the sizes of your SQL Server 2005 database because it allows you to plan for future space needs, notice types of problems, and plan for time periods of heavy volume. I'll show you the simple method that I use to capture this information.
How Important Is Usability?
As DBAs, we don't often deal with the human interface side of the applications that we build, but it is important. And we want to be sure that anything we develop considers the end user's perspective. Steve Jones asks how much should this matter?
How Important Is Usability?
As DBAs, we don't often deal with the human interface side of the applications that we build, but it is important. And we want to be sure that anything we develop considers the end user's perspective. Steve Jones asks how much should this matter?
How Important Is Usability?
As DBAs, we don't often deal with the human interface side of the applications that we build, but it is important. And we want to be sure that anything we develop considers the end user's perspective. Steve Jones asks how much should this matter?
SSIS 2008 Data Profiler
Business Intelligence expert Vincent Rainardi brings us a new article that looks at how you can profile your data to understand its values and distribution using Integration Services.
Positive Blogging
Blogging is increasingly becoming a part of more and more people's lives. But to what extent should it be part of your corporate image? Steve Jones has a few comments about a very interesting blog he found.
Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
Forums
advice on ssrs version control
Hi we're a bit behind on versioning ssrs. I think we have over 1600...
Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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