SQL Server Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest SQL Server Jobs and Info http://www.sqlserverreporter.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:18:34 -0500 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/logo.jpg http://www.sqlserverreporter.com Feed provided by SQL Server Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest SQL Server Jobs and Info. http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9873 If you worked with federations, I am sure you are already know about the online tools like SQL Azure Management portal that give you the ability to orchestrate your federations with repartitioning operations or resize member MAXSIZE and edition. ... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9863 As part of the SQL Server 2012 release several changes were made to Analysis Services that should alleviate some issues previously seen on large NUMA node machines.Separation of IO and Processing JobsTo better understand how the changes that were made work, it is helpful to have some background information about what types of issues were seen in earlier releases.During testing, it was found that a 2 NUMA node 24 core server was handling roughly 100 queries per second during stress testing. ... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9864 I was sitting through SQL Server 2012 training, and Ajay Jagannathan was showing us Management Studio.  Eric Burgess had worked on this topic.  He started covering some neat things, that have apparently been there for a while, but I just never played around with it enough to see what all you could do.  Im sure a lot of others are not aware of these either, so I thought I would highlight some of them. ... Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9852 Brian has a tone of samples on PHP and Federations in this post right here... Another great one! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/silverlining/archive/2012/01/18/usin...(truncated)... -cihan[Image] Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9851 As you may or may not know, SSRS 2008 R2 added the ability to automatically create page breaks on group changes.  Historically, people attempted to use custom code to accomplish this and, while it worked, the pagination logic we use in SSRS 2008 R2 breaks the standard implementation of this for several reasons.  You can see the typical implementation of this at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrishays/archive/2006/01/05/resetpa...(truncated)... ... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9838 If you have followed this blog, you have probably seen a series of posts documenting the life of a project Ive been working on, Atlanta, to a product called System Center Advisor. Today marks the official release of that product. This has been a particularly rewarding journey for me to see an idea about giving our knowledge in CSS to customers turn into a full proactive assessment service powered by System Center and the cloud. ... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9839 with xmlnamespaces (default 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan') select x.value(N'@NodeId',N'int') as NodeId , x.value(N'@PhysicalOp', N'sysname') as PhysicalOp , x.value(N'@LogicalOp', N'sysname') as LogicalOp , ox.value(N'@Database',N'sysname') as [Database] , ox.value(N'@Schema',N'sysname') as [Schema] , ox.value(N'@Table',N'sysname') as [Table] , ox.value(N'@Index',N'sysname') as [Index] , ox.value(N'@IndexKind',N'sysname') as [IndexKind] , x. ... Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9831 I know I already posted a whole bunch on “why use federations” or “what are federation for” but most conversations on federations, I get the question on ‘why’? so I wanted to go back to basics and what the combination of SQL Azure (a.k.a PaaS database in the cloud) and Federations is a killer combination. ... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9832 By Gregory Suarez | Sr. Escalation Engineer | SQL Server   The CTP release of the Microsoft SQL Server ODBC Driver for Linux (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28160 ) opens many  opportunities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5.x) customers who want to access the power of Microsoft SQL Server. ... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.sqlserverreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=9824 I recently joined a software development project that involves not only myself and other internal Microsoft employees, but a partner and a customer as well. We are building a hybrid solution that uses assets on premises as well as Windows Azure for processing. When we put the team together we picked a methodology (Agile) for the project (we use multiple methodologies at Microsoft - whatever the project needs) and then we started talking about Source Control. ... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500