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What is Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of application programs and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data from various data sources, thus providing enterprise users with reliable and timely information and analysis for improved decision making. To put it simply, BI is an umbrella term that refers to [...]

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I have wonderful experience at my recent Business Intelligence tour. I will write down in detail about my experience at different location. However, today I would like to talk about one particular question which was asked at all the locations. It was about SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence (BI). Many attendee asked me how [...]

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According to MacLennan et al. (2009), data mining is defined as “the process of analyzing data to find hidden patterns using automatic methodologies.” Consider the following simple example that explains this concept. By analyzing the data on the items purchased from a supermarket or a chain of such stores, information on the products that are [...]

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SQL Server 2008 R2 introduces new management tools to help improve IT efficiency and productivity. Investments in application and multi-server management will help organizations proactively manage database environments efficiently at scale through centralized visibility into resource utilization. Such investments can help streamline consolidation and upgrade initiatives across the application lifecycle—all with tools that make it [...]

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This article is submitted by Nupur Dave
Future of Business Intelligence and Databases
The term business intelligence (BI) was coined by Howard Dresner in the early 1990s. He defined Business Intelligence as “a set of concepts and methodologies to improve decision making in business through use of facts and fact-based systems.” In a time when data warehousing [...]

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Ahmedabad SQL Server User Group Meeting was organized on November 29, 2008 at famous C.G. Road in Ahmedabad. We had great response and wonderful back to back technical sessions. The highlight of whole meeting was participation of UG President Jacob Sebastian – SQL MVP from New York.
Meeting started with introduction and welcome to all the [...]

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SQL SERVER – Guidelines and Coding Standards complete List Download
Coding standards and guidelines are very important for any developer on the path of successful career. A coding standard is a set of guidelines, rules and regulations on how to write code. Coding standards should be flexible enough or should take care of the situation where [...]

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SQL SERVER – 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers Complete List Download
What is Data Compression?
In SQL SERVE 2008 Data Compression comes in two flavors:

Row Compression
Page Compression

Row Compression
Row compression changes the format of physical storage of data. It minimize the metadata (column information, length, offsets etc) associated with each record. Numeric data types and [...]

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SQL SERVER – 2008 – Interview Questions and Answers Complete List Download
1) General Questions of SQL SERVER
What is Cursor?
Cursor is a database object used by applications to manipulate data in a set on a row-by-row basis, instead of the typical SQL commands that operate on all the rows in the set at one time.
In [...]

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Report Builder 2.0 supports the full capabilities of SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services including flexible report layout, data visualizations and richly formatted text. The download includes the following functionality above the RC0 release of Report Builder:

Easy to use wizards for creating table, matrix and chart data regions.
Support for directly [...]

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