Measure for Measure
Do OLAP tools shortchange users with time-varying data? This article by Seth Grimes looks at some of the problems with OLAP tools.
What is OLAP?
An interesting question and one that The OLAP Report attempts to answer. This article is an analysis of what the increasingly misused OLAP term is supposed to mean.
Reattaching Databases - Some Code AND a Contest!
Attaching and detaching databases isn't rocket science, but if you have a lot of databases to attach it's pretty boring. Andy has written some VB code that uses SQL-DMO to speed up the process. But DMO isn't the only way - can you write a TSQL script to do the same thing? Fame and fortune await!
Try the SQL Parser Object to Colorize your SQL!
The SQLParser object - mostly undocumented - gives you an easy way to convert a TSQL string into a colorized RTF string. Andy started with that and wrote some code to change it to HTML. Useful? Never know! Code and demo program included with the article.
SQL Server 2000 User-Defined Functions White Paper
The User_Defined_Functions.exe file contains the User-Defined Functions white paper. The User-Defined functions white paper outlines the characteristics of the new user-defined function (UDF) feature that is introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The white paper also summarizes how you can create your own Transact-SQL functions to extend the programmability of Transact-SQL.
OLAP Services: Managing Slowly Changing Dimensions
Amir Netz is one of the true OLAP and SQL Server gurus at Microsoft. If you ever get the chance to see him speak, go. This is one of his articles examining OLAP services.
What Skills Does a DBA Need?
What skills do you need to be a DBA? Lots of different ones, but people often forget there are non-technical skills that matter. This article by David Poole examines some of the softer skills
that can help your career.
INF: Understanding How to Configure a SQL Server Connection Affinity
In an online transaction processing (OLTP) environment, the connection affinity mask option may provide performance enhancement in high-end, enterprise-level SQL Server environments that are running on computers with 16 or more CPUs. In particular, this option is useful when there are a significant number of network interactions (more than 10,000 per second) between the middle-tier application servers and the back-end SQL Server system.
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Getting ANY of the data
I have this data in two tables:
-- Beer table BeerIDBeerNamebrewer 5Becks Interbrew 6Fat Tire New Belgium 7Mac n Jacks Mac & Jack's Brewery 8Alaskan AmberAlaskan Brewing 9Kirin Kirin Brewing -- Beercount table BeerName BottleCount Becks 5 Fat Tire 1 Mac n Jacks 2 Alaskan Amber 4 NULL 7 Corona 2 Tsing Tao 4 Kirin 12What is returned from this query?
SELECT * FROM dbo.BeerCount AS bc WHERE bc.BeerName=ANY (SELECT b2.BeerName FROM dbo.Beer AS b2);See possible answers