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A lot of the things you need to do with SQL Server may well have been done before even if it’s using the new features in the new version , SQL Server 2008. The challenge is to find this stuff and be able to make use of that earlier effort
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Metadata is “data about data” and in the BI world this means two things: Definitions of terms, particularly calculations so that business users can understand what they are looking whether on screen or on paper. Lineage to understand where and how
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I have just been following a thread about using reporting services 2005 to produce a 55,000 row excel spreadsheet. The initiator of the thread was concerned that the report was locking up and was looking for a fix. I could suggest migrating to SQL Server
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Both Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server come with a lot more than just a database engine, there’s also a suite of BI tools: Integration Services (SSIS) Reporting Services (SSRS) Analysis Services (SSAS) which you are also licensed to use on
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Day 15 of my virtual advent calendar, about stuff I like in SQL Server 2008.. If there were no issues with data quality in data warehouses I would have completed many of my BI projects in a third of the time. The client would always insist they had good
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Day 14 of my virtual advent calendar, about stuff I like in SQL Server 2008.. If it aint broke don’t fix it, is probably best aimed at Integration Services in SQL Server 2008. So what was ‘fixed’? The most important thing was the performance of
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I see a lot of people asking about how to make integration services highly available and there isn’t an easy answer, so let me explain why. Integration services (SSIS) is designed to bulk move a set of data from a source to a target while performing some
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The new Merge T-SQL command has great potential in a data warehouse scenario and Integration Services is the tool in SQL Server to load the data warehouse so how do they fit together in SQL Server 2008? The answer is not really and I am not sure they
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My first ever post was about the features in SQL Server 2000 that were deprecated in SQL Server 2005 i.e. they wouldn’t be available in the next release (SQL Server 2008). In the same way there are SQL Server 2005 features that will be deprecated in SQL
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It is already possible to get an indication of how well SQL Server 2008 will perform before it is released as there already some TPC benchmarks published for it. The performance of Integration Services has been separately tested, as have a number
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Metadata (data about data) is becoming increasingly popular not just to meet ever more stringent auditing requirements for business intelligence projects, but also to enable accelerated development and maintenance. The challenge is to deliver rich metadata
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Continuing my series of posts on upgrade, I thought it might be good to have a look at the business intelligence components of SQL Server, so here’s a simple grid that I have adapted from Scalability Experts for use in the upgrade workshops and
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One of the biggest headaches in migrating away from SQL Server 2000 is Data Transformation Services (DTS). The tool is very widely used and its initial simplicity no doubt contributed to that. A good example is of several Oracle sites where SQL Server
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