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SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 32 - Distributed Service Broker Environment - Conducting Dialogs

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:22:56 GMT

This installment of our series focuses on establishing, conducting, and terminating a sample Service Broker dialog in a distributed environment, leveraging previously established routes and dialog-level permission.

Setting up a Two-NODE SQL Server 2008 Cluster from the Command Prompt - Integrated Installation

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:05:16 GMT

Part 1 of this series discussed how to prepare for SQL Server cluster installation on a two-node Windows Server 2003 cluster. This installment explains how to install SQL Server Database Engine on the cluster using the Integrated Installation option.

Basic Set Functions: The BottomCount() Function, Part I

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:18:48 GMT

Isolate worst / lowest performers from the member population at large, and perform sophisticated analysis with BottomCount(). Join MSAS Architect Bill Pearson in the first of a pair of articles focusing upon the powerful BottomCount() function, where we experience “hands-on” some of the possible ways it can offer multi-perspective decision support.

SQL 2008 Backup and Restore Part 1

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:22:52 GMT

This article examines backing up and restoring SQL Server databases. In addition to covering standard backup options such as Full Backups and Differential Backups, new SQL Server 2008 features such as Backup Compression will be introduced.

Oracle’s ADR Command Interpreter (ADRCI) – Part 3

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:11:33 GMT

Oracle’s new ADR with command interface shows promise for DBAs to quickly investigate diagnostic information. This article takes a deeper look at ADRCI’s commands.

Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell – Part 6

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:25:27 GMT

Part 6 of this series examines how to check all of the databases available in the SQL Server instance and query the database properties.

Oracle Database 11g: Adaptive Cursor Sharing

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:20:44 GMT

This article discusses a new Oracle Database 11gR1 feature - Adaptive Cursor Sharing - and illustrates how to use it in practical situations to limit hard parsing of SQL statements with bind variables while increasing the relative execution efficiency of those statements.

SQL Server 2008 Data Collections and the Management Data Warehouse

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:18:41 GMT

Data Collections are a great tool that allows DBAs to gather different statistics, and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW) is the repository for storing those statistics. This article offers an overview of Data Collections and how to configure the MDW.

SqlCredit – Part 19: Exploring SQL 2005’s Ranking Functions – RANK() and DENSE_RANK()

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:26:09 GMT

Part 19 digs deep into two of SQL 2005's ranking functions: RANK() and DENSE_RANK(). It includes performance considerations and using CTEs to avoid table variables.

The Missing Sync

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:23:29 GMT

This article offers an overview of what is needed in a robust data synchronization system.

Unleashing DBMS_PROFILER

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:15:49 GMT

The DBMS_PROFILER package has been around since at least Oracle8i days, yet it seems to get short shrift in many of the tuning books and online discussion forums. Learn how easy it is to implement and perhaps you'll add this built-in to your tuning arsenal.

Mastering OLAP Reports: Parameterized Grouping

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:03:25 GMT

The ability to choose grouping criteria at run time can mean the selection and delivery of enterprise data in a more focused and consumer-friendly manner. It also means doing more with fewer reports. BI Architect Bill Pearson leads a hands-on demonstration of a way to parameterize grouping with runtime sorting options.

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 31 - Distributed Service Broker Environment - Routing

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:18:38 GMT

The previous installment of our series began an overview of a distributed Service Broker environment. This article describes the remaining steps necessary to facilitate communication between services residing on separate computers in the same Windows domain, including assigning permissions to execute Service Broker-specific tasks and defining Adjacent Broker Protocol routes.

Attribute Member Keys – Pt II: Composite Keys

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:07:21 GMT

Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his exploration of Attribute Member Keys in another member of a group of articles surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we resume our examination of Attribute Member Keys, focusing upon composite keys and their properties.

Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell – Part 5

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:10:07 GMT

This fifth installment of the “Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell” series illustrates how to access SQL Server instance properties and SQL Server configuration details using Windows PowerShell.

Setting up a Two-node SQL Server 2008 Cluster from the Command Prompt - Preparation

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:15:12 GMT

Part 1 of this series discusses the prerequisites for SQL Server cluster installation. Subsequent installments will provide step-by-step examples of SQL Server 2008 cluster installation.

MS Access and MySQL

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:18:36 GMT

Learn how to set up an off-site copy of a working MySQL database, an Access version of the same back-end, and a front-end that could link to either.

Intrinsic Member Properties: The MEMBER_VALUE Property

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:15:36 GMT

MSAS Architect Bill Pearson leads hands-on exercises providing exposure to the use of the MEMBER_VALUE intrinsic member property. Join us in generating simple lists, as well as datasets to support report parameter picklists.

Free Hands-on Oracle E-Business Suite Training

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:31:59 GMT

Join Steve Callan as he shares several ways to get your hands on E-Business Suite.

DBA Call to Action: How You Do What You Do

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:24:10 GMT

Problem solving is high on the skill set that all DBAs should have. A DBA doesn't necessarily need to know how to solve everything but they should have the ability to define a problem, research solutions, and ultimately take action. Read on to learn more...

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 30 - Distributed Service Broker Environment - Endpoints

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:15:39 GMT

In the latest articles of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we have been discussing Service Broker. This article describes the initial setup of components required to demonstrate a distributed implementation, with initiator and target services residing on two separate computers.

What is SQL Server

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:27:58 GMT

This refresher on SQL Server examines when to use a database as well when not to, along with some of the key terms used with SQL Server.

Terminate User processes in SQL Server

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:24:45 GMT

This article illustrates how to create a simple procedure to kill many sessions at the same time, kill a range of sessions and kill all of the sessions connecting to a database.

Oracle's ADR Command Interpreter (ADRCI) – Part II

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:26:30 GMT

Oracle's new ADR with command interface shows promise for DBAs to quickly investigate diagnostic information.

Attribute Member Keys – Pt 1: Introduction and Simple Keys

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:32:36 GMT

Join Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson as he kicks off an exploration of Attribute Member Keys, a continuation of a body of articles surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we introduce Attribute Member Keys, focusing upon the simple keys and their properties.

phpMinAdmin is a powerful minimalist MySQL editor

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:20:23 GMT

PhpMyAdmin can be a little complex; if you want a lightweight alternative, try phpMinAdmin.

Installing Oracle E-Business Suite R12 on Windows 2003

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:23:51 GMT

Learn how to install EBS, starting from scratch and walk away with an up and running EBS instance using the Vision Enterprises database.

Oracle Database 11g: PLSQL and OCI Result Set Caching

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:19:52 GMT

Oracle Database 11gR1 offers several new performance enhancements that limit "round trips" between database server, application servers, and applications when the identical data is required. The final article in this series explores how the latest release of Oracle extends the ability to cache result sets to applications and PL/SQL functions.

What Kind of DBA Are You?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:16:39 GMT

Depending on the environment in which they work, a DBA might perform a number of different tasks. Greg Larsen identifies these different tasks, categorized by work environments.

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 29 - Implementing Service Broker Conversation

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:19:22 GMT

Recent installments of our series discussed the functionality incorporated into the asynchronous messaging framework of Service Broker. We described how to initiate a dialog between two services residing in the same database and exchange messages between them. This article focuses on the process of ending an existing conversation.

SqlCredit, Part 18: Exploring the Performance of SQL 2005’s OUTPUT Clause

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:23:49 GMT

Part 17 of this series introduced SQL Server 2005's OUTPUT clause. The OUTPUT clause is very useful for pulling "automatic" values out of an INSERT statement (or UPDATE). This article looks at how it performs compared to other options.

Audit your Windows domain DBA group using PowerShell

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:19:08 GMT

Adding or removing a login from a dedicated domain group is easy compared to adding individual DBA logins to every SQL Server box. This article illustrates how to audit such changes on the domain group.

Discover SQL Server TCP Port

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:05:18 GMT

Learn how to discover the TCP port for a SQL Server instance from the registry using Windows Powershell.

Mastering OLAP Reports: Parameterizing Number of “Top” Items with the MDX TopCount() Function, Part II

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:28:29 GMT

BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his hands-on demonstration of an approach to the parameterization of the highly useful TopCount() function.

Intro to PHP + Oracle

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:14:20 GMT

Sean Hull points you on the right track to get started with PHP and Oracle.

Business Intelligence Publisher – The “Other” Oracle Reports

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:20:17 GMT

BI Publisher is a tremendously powerful reporting tool. It is based on a widely accepted standardized open source language (XML), it is feature rich in terms of what it can produce and it empowers users to query, view, and format their own reports. Read on to learn more.

Creating Charts in an Access 2007 Database

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:07:05 GMT

Garry Robinson fills the gap found in the Access 2007 help manual by providing some much needed help on how to use the charting object in Access 2007.

Intrinsic Member Properties: The MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME Property

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:01:33 GMT

Join MSAS Architect Bill Pearson in hands-on exercises, where we gain exposure to the use of the MEMBER_UNIQUE_NAME property in generating simple lists, as well as datasets to support report parameter picklists.

Oracle’s ADR Command Interpreter – Part I

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:18:19 GMT

Oracle’s new ADR with command interface shows promise as a way for DBAs to quickly investigate diagnostic information.

Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell – Part 4

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:19:25 GMT

Earlier installments of this series illustrated how to ping the host, how to check all of the windows services related to SQL Server and how to check the hardware and operating system information. Part 4 of this series demonstrates how to get hard disk and network adapter information from the host machine.

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 28 - Implementing Service Broker Conversation

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:22:12 GMT

Part 28 of this series continues our overview of Service Broker, examining how to initiate a dialog, send a sample message between initiator and target services, process it using a T-SQL RECEIVE statement, and finally observing how the queues and system views change as the result of these events.

Create Your First SQL Server Database in 3 Quick Steps

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:20:10 GMT

The goal of this article is to create an Employees database in SQL Server and populate it with test data in three quick steps.

Oracle Database 11g: SQL Query Result Set Caching

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:35:54 GMT

This article - the first in this series - delves into how the result set from a SQL query result set can be retained in the database's Shared Pool for later access by a similar or identical query in the immediate future.

Mastering OLAP Reports: Parameterizing Number of “Top” Items with the MDX TopCount() Function, Part I

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:21:13 GMT

Writing high-performance reports against Analysis Services cubes means learning MDX to some extent. Parameterization of MDX functions is one of those things that cannot be delivered solely via graphical MDX Editor. BI Architect Bill Pearson demonstrates a way to parameterize the highly useful TopCount() function.

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Part 27 - Implementing Basic Service Broker Objects

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:17:35 GMT

Marcin Policht explains the interaction of the primary elements of Service Broker's asynchronous messaging framework and describes a process of setting up the database objects necessary to demonstrate their sample implementation (which will be the subject of our next article).

SqlCredit – Part 17: Exploring SQL 2005’s OUTPUT Clause

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:19:47 GMT

SQL Server 2005 introduces the OUTPUT clause, a bit of magic that allows us to get the identity value, plus a number of other values, from an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE, which all have different interaction with OUTPUT. This article concentrates on INSERT.