SQL Azure Reporting.

SQL Azure Reporting
SQL Azure Reporting enables developers to enhance their applications by embedding cloud based reports on information stored in a SQL Azure database.  Developers can author reports using familiar SQL Server Reporting Services tools and then use these reports in their applications which may be on-premises or in the cloud.

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON/OFF and SET ANSI_NULLS ON/OFF

June 9, 2012 Leave a comment

Most of us use those statements while creating stored procedures and functions. most of us don’t know what is the significance of those statements and how they are useful.

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON/OFF

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Understand Response Time vs. Total Time in SQL

June 8, 2012 Leave a comment

Response time is the time it takes for a query to return the first record. Total time is the time it takes for the query to return all records. For an interactive application, response time is important because it is the perceived time for the user to receive visual affirmation that a query is being processed. For a batch application, total time reflects the overall throughput. You have to determine what the performance criteria are for your application and queries, and then design accordingly.

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Get a comma separated list in SQL & MDX.

To get a comma separated list in SQL as well as in MDX use below queries.

Sequence Vs Identity – SQL Server 2012

June 6, 2012 6 comments

What is sequence?

Sequence is a newly introduced database object in Sql Server 2012, Sequence is used to generate a sequence of numeric values in either ascending or descending order, along with an option to have the minimum and maximum values and also allows to cycle and cache for better performance.

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Change the Look & Feel of the Report Manager.

Why we need to change the Look & Feel of the Report Manager?

Ans- If we have different environments to deploy the reports like QA, DEV, PROD. that time User/Developer can get the more idea once open the Report Manager. Read more…

Introduction and Installation of Data Quality Services for Denali

May 24, 2012 2 comments

Data Quality Services (DQS)  enables you to discover, build, and manage knowledge about your data. You can then use that knowledge to perform data cleansing, matching, and profiling

DQS is not installed automatically with Microsoft SQL Server Denali CTP3.  You must perform additional following steps to complete your Data Quality Server installation, configure it, and then use it. Read more…

SQL Azure Database Take Offline

May 23, 2012 1 comment

As everyone knows that database administrator can take SQL Server Database offline for maintenance purpose with following command Read more…

SQL+MDX in one Apartment (Hybrid Query).

While replying on the MSDN Forums Most of the time people ask on how to write SQL+MDX both in single place means. Read more…

Powershell – Powershell Script to backup all user DBs in SQL Server

Powershell is Microsoft’s task automation framework.

The following is a simple powershell script to take full backup of all users database of MS SQL Server, this script is tested on MS SQL Server 2008R2 and MS SQL Server 2012(Denali). Read more…