Foreign Keys and their States
In this article, we will examine some rarely explored areas that concern foreign keys; in particular, we will look at disabled and un-trusted foreign keys.
Writing SQL Faster
All of us would like to code faster and with fewer mistakes. While a third party tool usualy won't help with the latter, there are a few to help you increase the speed at which you build readable code. New author Tom Fisher brings us a short tutorial on using a couple of Red Gate's tools.
SSIS Stumpers V1 - Unpivot Example
In this series, Brian Knight shows you an actual difficult business problem to solve, gives you hints about how to solve it and then lastly shows you step-by-step instructions how to solve it if you want the help. n this video of the series, Brian demonstrate how to unpivot data that may arrive from the mainframe and load a many to many table with SSIS.
The June Energy Update (2007)
Steve Jones takes a look at energy news and how Google and Microsoft are looking to lower their dependence on the grid and advance alternative energy use.
Distributed Partitioned Views / Federated Databases: Lessons Learned
This article contains information about the things we have learned while working with Federated Databases. Before beginning it is necessary to define the terms being used. Included in this article is one solution in production that is using federated servers and Distributed Partitioned Views.
Scale-Out Querying with Analysis Services
This white paper describes how to set up a load-balanced scalable querying environment for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services so that you can handle a large number of concurrent queries to your Analysis Services servers. Load-balanced querying ensures that readers of OLAP cubes can consistently query for the latest aggregations throughout the day and distribute the load of all queries among the available servers. This scale-out querying architecture optimizes cube processing time, increases the frequency of cube update, and makes processing more robust as you can afford more frequent processing and transparent error recovery.
Using SQL Server Table-Valued User-defined Functions with Exchange Web
The SQL Server Tables and Exchange Web Services sample demonstrates a powerful integration of Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005 features. This integration enables you to provide data from both Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server to client applications so that the data appears as if it were stored in SQL Server. As you will see, this creates some exciting development scenarios.
How to use trace flags in SQL Server 2000
SQL Server 2000 trace flags can dramatically alter the behavior and functionality of the server. There are a number of ways that they can be enabled and Chris Hedgate brings us a tutorial on their use and benefits.
The Journey to Katmai
With the next version of SQL Server due to release in 2008, Steve Jones takes a look of some of the more interesting features available in the June 2007 CTP and that should be ready for release next year.
Blogs
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A New Word: Apolytus
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Question of the Day
Read Only Replica in SQL Server Standard
Our environment runs using SQL Server Standard. We are implementing Availability groups. Our database has been experiencing high read volumes, so I want to let the application read the Synchronized Secondary replica, as I read that HADR does this. Can we implement this?
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