SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services is one of the most exciting new enhancements to SQL Server in quite some time. The addition of a robust and flexible reporting environment is something that most DBAs and developers are pleased to see. New author Andy Leonard brings us a technique for scheduling the execution of a report asynchronously, so your application or system can get back to work while the report is being generated.
I recently ran into a need to run a report in SQL reporting services from the command line. The Report took four (4) input parameters and I had to export it to Microsoft® Excel and save it to disk. I had to rummage through the product documentation and the Microsoft® SQL Reporting newsgroup to get this right. For running reports from the command line, SQL Reporting services provide a utility called “rs utility”.
How many times have you had to estimate space for a new SQL Server database? How much time did you spend on it? Was it a thumb-in-the-wind guess or did you actually examine a schema and calculate some values. If you have asked someone to estimate the space their database will need, they probably guess more than compute, but now Andre Vigneau gives us an easy way we can teach those developers to put some thought into the process.
Detailed error reporting from stored procedures can be extremely valuable when debugging problems in your application. I will share different levels of detail that you can build into your stored procedures. You can choose the level of detail appropriate for your situation.
SQL Server does a wonderful job of tuning itself, selecting the optimum query plans and in general performing very well under a variety of conditions. That does not mean the a good DBA cannot add value by setting up the system and ensuring the optimizer receives the information that it needs. New author Gordon Pollokoff brings us a short case study from a project he as recently involved in where a new application required a bit of tuning.
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Table partitioning is a powerful new feature in SQL Server 2005. It is primarily a manageability feature, but my interest here is in the performance and scalability of table and index partitioning for use with very large tables.
This is a two part series on how triggers work in the two latest versions of MS SQL Server. Because there are some pretty significant additions in trigger functionality from 7.0 to 2000, we'll first need to look at what the two versions have in common. The second part to this series will look at the differences between the two MS SQL Server versions.
Databases are being stolen. Customer data, credit card data, taxpayer data - they're all vulnerable. Scary? Yes - but wait, there's more. It's not just "their" data that's vulnerable - it's ours too!
Chris Hedgate, one of our regular SQL Server columnists, recently became intrigued by the way that SQL Server implements the week number. His concern was why SQL Server treats week 53 as week 1, which is not that way that ISO6801 sees it. Read about his investigation into the methods of implementing an algorithm to solve this 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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