This article is the third in a series of four where I share my findings on baselining, monitoring, stress testing and performance tuning. It builds on the foundations of my previous articles on baselining and monitoring.
2005-12-28
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The first phase of Project REAL included the migration of existing SQL Server 2000 DTS packages to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) for a large electronic retailer. One source of information for the data warehouse was from TLog files, which contained data from point-of-sale cash registers in stores. TLog files store data in packed decimal format. To extract and transform this data into a format suitable for loading into the relational data warehouse tables, it was necessary to unpack and parse the files. To achieve this, custom pipeline components were implemented to read and transform the data by extending the SSIS object model. This paper discusses what we learned while implementing the pipeline components for extracting and parsing data from the TLog parser
2005-12-27
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It has been widely publicized that Analysis Services 2005 uses XML for Analysis 1.1 (XMLA) as its only network protocol for communication between client and server. XMLA is standard public protocol defined by XMLA council and full description can be found at www.xmla.org
2005-12-26
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Peter runs DeBetta Software , a consulting firm that develops data-driven enterprise solutions. He is also a programming instructor for Wintellect, a training and consulting company, and a frequent speaker on SQL Server and other subjects.
2005-12-23
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This paper describes user instances in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and how you can use them to simplify adding database functionality to your Visual Studio projects.
2005-12-22
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A few months ago, I posted an article here at DBJ named How to Pass Access Data Across the Web. One reader expressed concern over using the Microsoft Internet Explorer library because of security issues. While I do not share his fear, I appreciate that others might, so I began to think about how the process could be enhanced by substituting a Web Service for the traditional ASP/Querystring web page approach described in the article. What follows is the fruit of those labors.
2005-12-21
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Despite a growing range of options for integrating mixed database environments, some companies are sidestepping the problem by moving to a single database platform.
2005-12-16
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In this lesson, we revisit Named Sets, a subject that we undertook in my article MDX in Analysis Services: Named Sets in MDX: An Introduction, in March of 2004. There, we introduced Named Sets from the perspective of the MDX query language, having obtained brief exposure to the concept of Named Sets earlier in the MDX in Analysis Services series (Using Sets in MDX Queries). We examined Named Sets as they existed within Analysis Services 2000, touching upon them from the perspective of Analysis Manager, the Cube Editor, and related interfaces in Analysis Services.
2005-12-15
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With the introduction of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft has created a new .NET management API for SQL Server called SQL Management Objects (SMO). As I started working with SQL Server in earnest following its release I discovered a few limitations that I hoped to correct using SMO. This article describes those problems and how to use SMO to script database objects.
2005-12-14
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One of the many tasks of the SQL Server Database administrator is to take and maintain backups of SQL Server databases. This includes taking backups of analytical databases as well. Read on to learn how to backup an Analysis service database.
2005-12-13
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While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers