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Monday, October 4, 2010

HP Business Intelligence Sizer for Microsoft SQL Server

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One of the challenges in Business Intelligence solutions is sizing the infrastructure. Many go with various calculations and assumptions and...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Looking for a BI Product suite? Have a look on “The BI Survey 9”

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Business Application Research Center – BARC publishes various types of survey reports; has published “ The BI Verdict ”, the latest BI surve...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

PivotViewer Extension for SQL Server Reporting Services

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You might have already seen Microsoft Silverlight PivotViewer for Excel (see my post on it). Just like that you are going to see PivotViewe...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 is available for downloading

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SQL Server 2008 SP 2 is available for downloading now. Enhancements includes; 15K partitioning Improvement Reporting S...

Table variable slower than Temporary table???

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I used to use table variables when the resultset is smaller and want to hold it temporarily. The main reason for this selection is, data man...
Monday, September 27, 2010

Tech Insights 2010 – Penang, Malaysia

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Tech Insights 2010 was an event organized by Malaysia Microsoft Enthusiasts to explorer new technologies related to Microsoft. It was great ...
Friday, September 10, 2010

SQL Server data compression: PAGE

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Although the storage cost is going down, we still think about storage optimization because once optimized, it is not only about the cost, it...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Deprecated Database Engine Features in SQL Server 2008 R2

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It would be better to know these features to avoid future problems. This has two tables that show features will not be supported in next ver...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Do you consider the “CONVERT_IMPLICIT”?

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This is not just about implicit conversion. This is about implicit conversion that happens without our notice, that might hinder the perform...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

When GROUP BY is not used, HAVING behaves like a WHERE clause

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If you have gone through BOL for HAVING keyword, you have seen above sentence at the top of the page. What does it exactly mean? Similar qu...
Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Article: Reporting Services 2008 R2: Geospatial Visualization – Part II

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If you have read the article Article: Reporting Services 2008 R2: Geospatial Visualization – Part I , then here is the part II of it. It has...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

SQL Server Sleeping Status and Connection Pooling

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Are you seeing many “sleeping” status connections in your SQL Server? If so, have you ever thought to find out the reason for it? Is it norm...
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Dinesh Priyankara
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Dinesh Priyankara (MSc IT) is an MVP – Data Platform (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) in Sri Lanka with 16 years’ experience in various aspects of database technologies including business intelligence. He has done many local and foreign business intelligence implementations and has worked as a subject matter expert on various database and business intelligence related projects. He is the Founder/Principal Architect of dinesQL (Pvt) Ltd and he consults, teaches and runs training programs on data related solutions and subjects.
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