Build an application to extract a query's estimated execution cost from its XML showplan. Users can submit only those queries costing less than a predetermined threshold to a server running SQL Server 2005, thereby ensuring it is not overloaded with costly, long-running queries.
Excel is a wonderful tool for examining the data in your SSAS cubes. MVP Brian Knight shows how you can access the data in Analysis Services or a SQL Server database from Excel 2007.
In our application we have the need to perform mathematical calculations. Right now we are doing so in our front end application. Unfortunately we are starting to experience performance problems with large data sets and differences in calculations due to developers using different logic. We are seeking some other options to perform the calculations. Does SQL Server perform basic mathematical calculations?
Marcin Policht explains the interaction of the primary elements of Service Broker's asynchronous messaging framework and describes a process of setting up the database objects necessary to demonstrate their sample implementation (which will be the subject of our next article).
Longtime SQL Server expert Bill Wunder has written a very interesting article on how to share knowledge among IT staff using the tools you already have in your organization.
In this article we will see how Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008 can help DBA's to track DML changes
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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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