You can use DAX to create reports from a tabular database in SQL Server Reporting Services. To do so requires a few workarounds. Rob Sheldon describes a poorly-documented but important technique for Business Intelligence.
As we ask developers to deliver software quicker, are we helping improve the quality of software? Steve Jones asks the question today.
This article will show you how to scan SQL Server Error Logs with ease and track important information that is stored there.
PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter will be hosting a session on what managers need to know about SQL Licensing, presented by Joseph D'Antonio on September 11, 2013.
SQL Saturday is coming to Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday, September 14 2013. Join us for a free day of SQL Server training and networking.
You are tasked with examining poor performance for queries on a certain table, or range of tables. Perhaps a sales report is timing out or running unacceptably slow; perhaps your web application is failing to return the result set before the application timeout is reached. You need to find out what's causing the bottleneck, and optimize either the queries used, the table schemata, or both.
Are there good and bad interview questions? Are there some you prefer or hate? Steve Jones comments on some of the strange ones out there and how hiring is changing.
Easily monitoring your SQL Agent job history using SSRS for concurrency, job lenght and job status.
With ODBC, you can summarise, and select just the data you need, in an Excel workbook before importing it into SQL Server. You can join data from different areas or worksheets. You can even get data from the result of a SQL Server SELECT statement into an Excel spreadsheet. Phil Factor shows how, and warns of some of the pitfalls.
The announcement that the MCM program was being discontinued brings us a few thoughts from Gail Shaw, one of the 0.08% to achieve the certification.
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Third part in my Ai series with databases. When building AI solutions within the...
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This month we have a very interesting invitation from Koen Verbeeck. He has hosted...
It’s the second tuesday of the month, which means T-SQL Tuesday time! This month’s...
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