Some of the key factors to consider while you devise an index maintenance plan are performance, concurrency, and required resources. SQL Server 2005 provides you with several options for index create and rebuild operations that you can use to effectively meet the requirements of performance, concurrency, and resources.
If you're having a problem with particular queries, there are a few things you can do with the information that the server collects about the distribution of data in columns and indexes.
Service Broker is a new feature in SQL Server 2005 that brings queuing and reliable messaging to SQL Server. Service Broker provides the “plumbing” to let you pass messages between applications, using SQL Server as the transport mechanism. Applications can use a single shared SQL Server database for this purpose or distribute their work across multiple databases.
We get Vincent Rainardi's "Data Warehouse Loading Part 2" article taking a look at how you can perform an "upsert" in your data warehouse.
SQL Server Management Studio is used to manage, query and design SQL Server solutions. In this video you're shown the basics of how to use Management Studio.
In this article, we will concentrate upon the useful IsLeaf() operator, from the perspective of its use within a calculation. We will discuss the straightforward purpose of the operator, to ascertain whether a member is a leaf-level member of a dimension; the manner in which IsLeaf() manages to do this; and ways we can leverage the operator to support effective conditional logic to meet various business needs within our own environments.
By doing a bit of groundwork and effectively controlling the scope of the metadata repository continuously throughout the project, few problems should arise.
After quite a few versions, Enterprise Manager is being retired. SQL Server 2005 will have a new management tool called the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Amit Lohia brings us a first look at some of the features of this new tool.
The methodology helps identify the areas of slow performance by looking at the problem from two directions called Waits and Queues. An analysis of Waits indicates where SQL Server is spending lots of time waiting. In addition, the biggest waits point out the most important or relevant Queues (that is, Performance Monitor counters and other data) for this workload.
Data space can be a concern in many situations as more and more data is being stored in your systems. Designing your schema to take this into account is important for a DBA and Steve Jones takes a look at how design decisions can be used to solve a business problem.
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I want to create a JSON document that contains data from this table:
TeamID TeamName City YearEstablished 1 Cowboys Dallas 1960 2 Eagles Philadelphia 1933If I run this code, what is returned?
SELECT json_objectagg('Team' : TeamName)
FROM dbo.NFLTeams;
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