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SQL Server Business Intelligence - adopt sustainable practices on ETL processes with SSIS

Published 24 April 8 6:14 AM | SSQA.net

Making best use of SQL Server Integration Services within your ETL processes is a flexible choice, which has a huge share within the Business Intelligence application platform. You may be aware that SSIS introduces several new and enhanced features and...

Filed under: sql server, ssis, ssas, ssrs, machine, bids, etl, administrator, biztalk, business intelligence, adapter

How to find which version of Analysis Services you are running?

Published 5 November 7 11:54 PM | SSQA.net

Using SELECT @@VERSION statement you can get simply get information of SQL Server you are running , when connected to that SQL Server instance. What if to know same for the Analysis Services components, we don't have such an easy way to find out!...

Filed under: sql server, databases, microsoft, integration, ssis, ssas, version, Analysis Services

Whats the best way to setup memory on a four-node cluster?

Published 6 September 7 4:42 AM | SSQA.net

Though it is more to do with SQL Storage kind of question, I have just dragged into Performance tuning section for the sake of large installation you talk with clustering. For the sake of discussion it seems better to plan ahead for the failing instances...

Filed under: sql server, performance, analysis, high availability, ssis, security, ssas, ssms, clustering, resources

Whats with 64 bit computing on SQL Server

Published 4 August 7 9:41 AM | SSQA.net

What advantages we took when deployed the 64-bit computing within SQL Server As you aware 64 bit computing with 64-bit processors have become the standard for systems ranging from the most scalable servers to desktop PCs. The way to take full advantage...

Filed under: sql server, performance, management, ssis, security, ssas, ssms, ssrs, x64, computing

A Guided Tour to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Published 16 July 7 8:2 AM | SSQA.net

I have been asked many of our developers and even got through few questions asking about how to understand SQL Server Integration Services which is a traditional extract methods with a transform, and load (or ETL) model of integrating data from standard...

Filed under: sql server, ssis, ssas, ssms, dts, etl, tour

SSIS and Disaster Recovery Planning in multi-user environment

Published 25 June 7 4:50 AM | SSQA.net

I have had an interesting discussion in SSP World about how to grant access & privileges to handle SSIS packages in a high availability and Disaster Recovery scenario. As you may be aware that privilege involves having access to Distributed COM components...

Filed under: sql server, ssis, security, ssas, users, recovery, disaster

What we have and what we need in BI?

Published 30 May 7 5:15 AM | SSQA.net

There is no doubt that from SQL Server 2005 version onwards Business Intelligence (BI) solutions has been better as compared to the previous versions. Still it is interested to know what is the Microsoft's strategy on the expansion of BI. Having the...

Filed under: sql server, integration, ssis, bi, ssas, ssrs, business, intelligence

SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services community samples

Published 29 May 7 4:44 AM | SSQA.net

As the evolution of Analysis Services has taken to new heights in SQL Server 2005 equally the users are looking to deploy on the large scale and having a need to go though the samples that are helpful. So how about referring to a project that contains...

Filed under: sql server, analysis, microsoft, ssis, server, ssas, codeplex

Swiss-knife features in SQL Server to help you

Published 25 May 7 8:11 AM | SSQA.net

Over the times managing RDBMS platform has evolved into a phase that all of the essential functionality that a Database Administrator needs to administer a multivendor or single-vendor database environment wrapped in an intuitive graphical interface....

Filed under: sql server, microsoft, ssis, ssas, ssms, features

Anti-virus tool on SQL Server

Published 18 May 7 9:33 AM | SSQA.net

Another common question in the forums asking about what are the best practices for using antivirus software on servers running SQL Server. In my experience if your SQL Server is not a internet-faced one then no need to have one installed on a SQL Server...

Filed under: sql server, management, microsoft, ssis, security, ssas, ssms, ssrs, search, anti-virus, kba

Beginner in SQL Server Business Intelligence

Published 16 May 7 1:30 PM | SqlServer-QA.net (SSQA)

You may be aware that SQL Server 2005 version provides many new features as compared to other Business Intelligence products with rich media presentations, not only on the presentation layer if you deep dive into the new features there many more to integrate...

Filed under: sql server, microsoft, integration, ssis, ssas, ssrs, business, reporting, intelligence

Taking advantages of Cryptographic features in SQL 2005 - security

Published 12 May 7 5:16 AM | SqlServer-QA.net (SSQA)

When I had a chance to know about encryption features in SQL Server I always go with books online as a first hand information, but there is more to ask about this feature in 2005 version: Have you ever thought about encryption in SQL Server, how to implement...

Filed under: sql server, integration, ssis, security, ssas, cache, entry

Data explosion and attributes in BI

Published 10 May 7 8:4 AM | SqlServer-QA.net (SSQA)

One of our Business Manager has asked can we handle the data explosion and BI requirement to handle billions of rows for their Sales pitch using SQL Server Analysis Servers. The obvious answer was 'yes' using the latest version of SQL Server and...

Filed under: sql server, analysis, integration, ssis, bi, ssas, attributes, business

Get to know new and enhanced business intelligence features in SQL Server 2005

Published 1 May 7 3:19 AM | SqlServer-QA.net (SSQA)

Microsoft is investing a lot to help the Business Intelligence (BI) platform users with the content and get acquaintance to the platform. You are aware BI includes SQL Server Analysis Services, Integration Services and Reporting Services, you can get...

Filed under: sql server, management, microsoft, integration, ssis, ssas, ssms, ssrs, services