Create Linked Reports from within SQL Server Management Studio. BI Architect Bill Pearson examines another approach for using Linked Reports to provide multiple "versions" of a single-source report.
2006-07-21
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This function will calcuate the number hours between two dates excluding weekends. This allows for cycle time metrics and anything else requiring only the hours of weekdays.
2006-07-20 (first published: 2004-12-16)
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In this section of this series, I am going to demonstrate how to install SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1, to update the client components using command line options.
2006-07-20
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This article describes the "beta" version of Simple-Talk's SQL formatting tool, SQL Prettifier. It provides links both to try it out online and to download the full source code (members only). Please give us your feedback! We will be offering prizes for any fixes and improvements that make it into "v1". I'd like this to become the de-facto (excuse the pun) tool for presenting code in the Simple-Talk articles, blogs and forums.
2006-07-18
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SqlBulkTool is a command line utility that is used to quickly create a mirror of a database. It reads its configuration from an XML file containing source and destination command strings and a list of all the tables to mirror and then handles the work of copying the database in an automated and highly parallelized way.
2006-07-17
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This is the second of a two-part article that explores the language features of SQL Full-text Search (SQL FTS), an component of SQL Server 7 and above that allows fast and efficient querying of large amounts of unstructured textual data. Part I dealt with index time language options, covering how words or tokens are broken from the text stream emitted from the iFilters and stored in the index.
2006-07-14
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In Part I and Part II of this series, we saw how to install the SQL Server 2005 Data Service component. In this section of this series, I am going to illustrate how to install SQL Server 2005 Database Services and SQL Server Analysis Services on a host machine using an .ini file.
2006-07-13
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2006-07-12 (first published: 2004-02-26)
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In this section of this series, I am going to illustrate how to install SQL Server 2000 Database Services on a server using various command line switches.
2006-07-12
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n SQL Server 2005, XML becomes a first-class data type. Developers can make minor remote modifications to stored XML documents easily, taking advantage of new support for XML schema-based strong typing, and server-based XML data validation.
2006-07-10
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By Steve Jones
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