SQLAuthority News – Online Session – Ancient Trade of Performance Tuning – Index, Beyond Index and No Index

Performance Tuning has been my favorite subject always. I love this subject the most. I personally have enjoyed every aspect of performance tuning. Quite often I have seen that when it is about performance, people end up talking about Indexes. Index for sure can help performance, but it is like…
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SQL SERVER – Denali – Download CTP3 Demo VHD Including Fully Configured Services and Integration with SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010

During my office hours observed, a very common question is”What is Denali?” once I answer that Denali is the next version of the SQL Server, the follow up question is where can I download it. I have explained the installation and download part over here: SQL SERVER – Denali CTP3…
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SQL SERVER 2012 Functions – 14 New Functions – A Quick Guide

Last two weeks I wrote various blog posts on new functions introduced in SQL Server 2012. So many comments and request I have received from various readers that they would like to see everything together. I have put up a quick guide here where I am writing all the 14 new SQL Server 2012 Functions linking them to my blog post as well Book On-Line for a quick reference.

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SQL SERVER – Denali – Date and Time Functions – EOMONTH() – A Quick Introduction

In SQL Server Denali, seven new datetime functions have been introduced, namely, DATEFROMPARTS (year, month, day) DATETIME2FROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, precision) DATETIMEFROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, milliseconds) DATETIMEOFFSETFROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds, fractions, hour_offset, minute_offset, precision) SMALLDATETIMEFROMPARTS (year, month, day, hour, minute)…
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SQLAuthority News – Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse Using the Kimball Approach

This white paper explores how the Kimball approach to architecting and building a data warehouse/business intelligence (DW/BI) system works with Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse, and how you would incorporate this new product as the cornerstone of your DW/BI system. For readers who are not familiar with the Kimball approach, we…
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