When loading a data warehouse, handling the ETL process of working with files can be problematic. Longtime DBA Janet Wong brings us an interesting solution that is flexible and efficient for quickly loading a number of files into a warehouse using DTS.
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Get a high-level overview of the benefits of the extensibility framework in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services that allows independent software developers to easily integrate new data mining algorithms into the product.
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If you are a SQL Server DBA, you realize that the performance of cursors is not great and they should be avoided where possible. One place it is difficult to avoid cursors is individual row processing within a trigger. Amin Sobati brings us a new article that shows just how you can avoid this.
In working on an existing database, DBAs often look to normalize tables and correct obvious flaws in design. Recently Andy Warren was working on a consulting project and realized that defaults would prevent many issues.
This white paper covers a variety of client object models supported by Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services when connecting to relational data sources. The example problems and solutions were gathered by members of the Analysis Services team while working with users of Analysis Services.
SQL Server 2005 provides four methods of encryption. Part one of this article covers encryption and decryption by passphrase.
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