-web-database-server OH YEAH database-web-server-
Oh yeah.Heard about a web database server?Or a database web server?Take a look at mine, a mean machine search server (made for AJAX solutions).Test bed for 32-bit version and a URI for searching for...
View ArticleSQL XML (Re: SQL cursors: This was a funny one)
Just so that I have said it: Don’t come here for XQuery expert advice, I don’t understand any part of XML. I just copy other people. Still, I am pretty good at copying. I got a reply on my post “SQL...
View ArticleAccess database from SQL 2005/64
How to read Access database data from 64-bit SQL Server 2005.1) Install SQL Server Express 2005, 32-bit2) Configure both SQL Servers to use distributed queries3) Create a database with a stored...
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SQL Server 2005: High definition timer (technical)
Timing with extreme precisionI) Preface I played with writing a generic metadata repository (prototyping) to prepare for ETL at Nortura. I'm not doing the meta data design, but want to understand what...
View ArticleSQL Server - Drop database, drop current connections first
Hi!I write scripts to generate my database, I want my scripts to run from command line using SQLCMD and (at the same time) use SSMS to edit the scripts and some times run them there. This creates a...
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Coconuts and seeded grapes
If you can't see the picture: stop reading, you are wasting your time.img src=xksd.comI used to do "custom bi", creating my own import programs (in a multitude of languages with more technologies than...
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Disable shutdown event tracker warning
Problem: unwanted display of shutdown event trackerWorking with vpc images, I some times turn off the images without caring about "clean" shut down. This enforces a warning the next time I boot. Since...
View ArticleEnable auto-logon
Enabling automatic logon for Windows can be done in two ways (that I know of) for installations connected to workgroup and one way for installations connected to domain.This works for Windows XP, 2003,...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence VPC Release 6
This is very nice indeed. You need at least 2GB RAM and you really want at least 3GB.•Overview•Business Intelligence VPC Release 6.part01.exe•Business Intelligence VPC Release 6.part02.rar•Business...
View ArticleETL top-down 1 – Architecting abstraction layering
I work at a very exciting BI-program where we have been able to do things right. The project is part of a larger program that contains Business Consulting, Master Data Management and Business...
View ArticleCMD: redirect error output
I write quite a few batch-files these days and want the error messages to be supressed. I had a vague recollection telling me that this was possible, and found it googling, so here it is:"2>nul".In...
View ArticleHyper-V on the laptop (Compaq nc6320)
I want to run Hyper-visor and other software (SQL Server 2008) on my laptop. I consider running Team Foundation Server, Windows XP, SQL Server versions, old Visual Studio versions, Visio, BizTalk and...
View ArticleGet gigs of disk space with a single command in Windows Server 2008R2 (and...
powercfg.exe /hibernate offThis will remove your hibernation file, which, in 2008 server makes no sense anyway. Gains the amount of disk space as you have installed RAM. I just got another 4GB with...
View ArticleThe shortest useful program I have written: %1
This is the shortest program I have written, it is two bytes:<ExecuteCommand.cmd>%1</ExecuteCommand.cmd>The task of this program is to execute the parameter as a program, I use this inside...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 CTP / Windows 7 x32 – Initial experience
No problems.Hardware is Virtual PC image on Vista/64 laptop.Setup is No UAC1GB RAM for the image10 logical disks on three image files, 64Kb cluster size for data drivesSeparated prog files db files,...
View ArticleHandling history failures in data warehousing
I work with Business Intelligence and use slowly changing history (wikipedia) extensively. We have a multi-layered topology and use multiple modeling techniques, including "data-vault", "star-schema"...
View ArticlePerformance hit for SELECT because of fragmentation?
SQL PASS - I got help from an expert on SQL PASS, SeattleQ: Is there a performance hit on the "select"-side because of some fragmentation of the data base files caused by auto growth?A: No. But you...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 MDS - Microsoft MDM Solution
Played two hours with this on the just released SQL 2008 R2 CTP nov.Two hours effective work was enough to- install the product (including reading how to do it),- installing IIS on Windows 7 (you need...
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Enable host to image network in Hyper-V
Hyper-V, while better than the alternatives, has some short comings when it comes to the client; copying files is hard and screen support is not ideal.That is why I prefer using the host to access the...
View ArticleExcel: read data from stored procedure, with great difficulty
Working with data (and information), I use Excel extensively. In my current project I use it to show results from tests. Having automated the tests I thought that reading the results from a stored...
View ArticleAttempting to program C++ once more
I have been trying (for a few hours) to create a good checksum function using C++ and found a nice MD5 implementation I thought would be a nice starting point.The business case for this is that I do...
View Article"Domain Driven Design" and "Information Islands"
Domain driven design, as it has been explained to me, dictates that the data shall have the truth in the domain model layer at the same time as you must have a bounded context. This way you create an...
View ArticleHandling historical data with SQL - Common errors in datawarehousing
Greetings,It has been a while since my last post. Here is an old post I put here because it comes up in mature enterprise data warehouses. Two easy points that are too hard to put in Power Point, but...
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