SQL Server is an amazing business intelligence platforum, including many tools that other vendors force you to buy separately. New Author Ramunas Balukonis is working with this platform and has built a system that helps him perform analysis on just what his Analysis Server is doing.
This article contains guidelines compiled by examining the .NET implementations of shipping .NET applications and analyzing the common performance mistakes that we found. The guidelines discuss selecting .NET objects and methods, designing .NET applications, retrieving data, and updating data.
Are you looking to change jobs? Is your company looking to hire a new SQL Server DBA that's a star? David Poole looks at some of the pitfalls of hiring a star as well as things you may want to consider when looking for a new job.
The SQL Server 2000 Report Pack for Microsoft CRM is a set of six Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports that work with the Microsoft CRM 1.2 sample database.
With the Report Pack, you have the choice of using the sample reports either as-is or as templates for designing new reports using the SQL Server Reporting Services Report Designer.
SQL Server allows data access from many sources, probably any that you could want. Some, however, are easier than others. Have you ever tried to update information in Exchange from SQL Server? Not that easy, but new author Steve Boriotti has written code as well as a short article on how you can make this happen.
In this article, I will show you how to leverage the Reporting Services unique extensible architecture to supercharge your report capabilities. First, I will explain how embedded and custom code options work. Next, I will show you how you can leverage custom code to author an advanced report with sales forecasting features.
Andy has some examples of not very high tech solutions that involve some technology behind the scenes, but the binding factor was that someone had to see the problem first, and it wasn't one of those show stopper type problems. It's not about SQL, but we think it is on topic.
This article focuses on a common problem associated with conflicting locks: blocking. When blocking occurs, a single connection blocks all other connections from reading or modifying a particular piece of data. Learn here how to resolve these issues.
Working with a QA server in SQL Server 2000 is something everyone should learn to do. Having some staging area between development and production will help ensure a more stable environment and smoother deployments. After a little hiatus, Steve Jones continues with this series looking at moving the latest backup over to QA.
This article looks at the basics of storage design for cubes using Analysis services. A good starting point for those getting into the use of analysis services.
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