Zap World
Steve Jones brings us a car update that talks about a new car that doesn't need gasoline to run.
Storage Modes in SSAS 2005
Analysis Services and business intelligence are new structures for most of the SQL Server world. BI expert Yaniv Mor brings us another article on Analysis Services, this time explaining the various different options for storing your cube data.
Kimball University: Four Fixes Refurbish Legacy Data Warehouses
DW/BI professionals are often tasked with making evolutionary upgrades and improvements to minimize cost and upheaval in the current analytic environment. We explore four upgrades that can breathe new life into legacy data warehouses.
Analysis of SQL Server Performance Data
Gathering performance data on your servers can be a cumbersome task without paying for an expensive tool. New author Jambu Krishnamurthy brings us a short tutorial on how you can gather this data from Perfmon and import it into SQL Server for reporting.
Fine Tuning your Database Design in SQL 2005
If your SQL Server app is suffering from poor performance and you suspect a missing index, then read on
Running and Scheduling SSIS Packages
In this presentation, Brian shows you how to run a SSIS package outside the designer environment using DTExec.exe and DTExecUI.exe. He also shows you how to schedule an SSIS package using SQL Server Agent.
Check Your SQL Server Identity
Retrieving the identity value from an inserted row should be a very simple task. But based on his survey at TechEd 2005 as well as some recent interviews, Andy Warren points out some of the wrong answers and turmoils he has faced in getting this question answered.
Contract Coding: Ensuring your Client pays up
Damon Armstrong learned the hard way about the consequences of not having a clearly defined project scope or work contract
SQL Server Spotlight on Jerome Halmans
The SQL Server memory manager is one of the more complicated parts of SQL Server and we had the chance recently to talk to the person that ensures it runs as smoothly as possible. Get to know the man behind the SQLOS.
Calculating financial values in SQL Server
SQL Server 2000 and 2005 do not include much in the way of financial functions, but there are many sources for the formulas for financial calculations. In this tip, I present the present value (PV) and future value (FV) functions, both of which are scalar UDFs.
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers