MDX in Analysis Services: Mastering Time: Change across Periods

In this article and others subsequent to it, we will focus on time considerations in our MDX queries., and how we can successfully report change over time, as well as to accumulate those changes to present the precise snapshots, trends and other time-based metrics so dearly appreciated in business.

sp_who by database sp_who_db

This stored procedure takes in a database name and returns all spids for that databases.

USP_GetJobSchedules

Originally authored by M.Pearson, this script gets all the scheduled jobs and lists out the different run statistics. I added the ability to derive Average run times, based on Start date and End date

Remove Leading CHAR's, I.E '0045T050' Removes  00

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Notification Services in SQL Server 2005

Notification Services is one of the features included in SQL Server 2005. As the name implies, Notification Services are services which send notifications to the interested entities based on what they would like be notified on. In this article you will see how to implement Notification Services in SQL Server 2005

Stop SQL Injection Attacks Before They Stop You

A new article from MSDN magazine on stopping SQL Injection attacks by examining how the SQL can be exploited. It's a good basic article for developers as well as DBAs who might have to review code.

Search for a string in a procedure, trigger or fun

This is an extension of two previous scripts, this one will produce a list of ojects that contain the first parameter and not the second. The function works as a table so if the user wants to list only functions, query as: select * from fn_sys_searchobject('text1','text2') where object_type = 'function'

Unearth the New Data Mining Features of Analysis Services 2005

An article from Microsoft Journal looking at the new Mining features of SQL Server 2005. If you're interested in Analysis Services, this ias a good look (from a high level) at the next version.

Find Objects