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SQL SERVER – Reducing CXPACKET Wait Stats for High Transactional Database

While engaging in a performance tuning consultation for a client, a situation occurred where they were facing a lot of CXPACKET Waits Stats. The client asked me if I could help them reduce this huge...

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SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Understanding and Controlling...

My recently article SQL SERVER – Reducing CXPACKET Wait Stats for High Transactional Database has received many good comments regarding MAXDOP 1 and MAXDOP 0. I really enjoyed reading the comments as...

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SQLAuthority News – Statistics Used by the Query Optimizer in Microsoft SQL...

I recently presented session on Statistics and Best Practices in Virtual Tech Days on Nov 22, 2010. The sessions was very popular and I got many questions right after the sessions. The number question...

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SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Enabling and Securing Data Entry...

SQL Server Analysis Service have many features which are commonly requested and many already exists in the system. Security Data Entry is very important feature and SSAS supports writeback feature....

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SQL SERVER – IO_COMPLETION – Wait Type – Day 10 of 28

For any good system three things are vital: CPU, Memory and IO (disk). Among these three, IO is the most crucial factor of SQL Server. Looking at real-world cases, I do not see IT people upgrading CPU...

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SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg605238.aspx I am very excited that Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 reference guide has been announced. As a consultant I have always enjoyed working with Fast...

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SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper Using SharePoint List Data in PowerPivot

One of the many features of Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot is the range of data sources that can be used to import data. Anything, from Microsoft SQL Server relational databases, Oracle databases, and...

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SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis...

SQL Server Analysis Service (SSAS) has been always interesting subject for research. Analysis Services cubes are a very powerful tool in the hands of the business intelligence (BI) developer. They...

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SQLAuthority News – Whitepaper – Running SQL Server with Hyper-V Dynamic...

I was recently looking for best practices for Hyper-V and SQL Server and I ended up whitepaper which was published in July earlier this year. I really wish I had come across this whitepaper earlier but...

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SQLAuthority News – Automation of Data Mining Using Integration Services

This article is a walkthrough that illustrates how to build multiple related data models by using the tools that are provided with Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services. In this walkthrough, you...

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SQLAuthority News – Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data...

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...

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SQLAuthority News – Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn Solutions Guide for High...

SQL Server 2012 is has very exciting new feature of SQL Server AlwaysOn. This new feature reduces planned and unplanned downtime and maximize application available. Additionally it provides data...

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SQL SERVER – Technical Reference Guides for Designing Mission-Critical...

Yesterday I was reading architecture reference material helping my friend who was looking for material in this respect. While working together we were searching twitter, facebook and search engines to...

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SQLAuthority News – Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Guide for SQL Server...

I have always enjoyed learning about Fast Track Data Warehousing Technology. The goal of a Fast Track Data Warehouse reference architecture is to achieve an efficient resource balance between SQL...

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SQLAuthority News – Migration Guide: Migrating to SQL Server 2012 Failover...

Migration is always a challenge. How many times we have stayed away from migrating product to another server or next version because we are worried what will happen once we migrate. There are two main...

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SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Choosing a Tabular or...

Data modeling is the most important task for any BI professional. Matter of the fact, the biggest challenge is to organizing disparate data into an analytic model that effectively and efficiently...

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SQLAuthority News – SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide – A Comprehensive...

Microsoft has just released SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide. This guide is very comprehensive and covers the subject of upgrade in-depth. This is indeed a helpful detailed white paper. Even...

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SQLAuthority News – 2 Whitepapers Announced – AlwaysOn Architecture Guide:...

Understanding AlwaysOn Architecture is extremely important when building a solution with failover clusters and availability groups. Microsoft has just released two very important white papers related...

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SQLAuthority News – Weekend Experiment with NuoDB – Points to Pondor and...

This weekend I have downloaded the latest beta version of NuoDB. I found it much improved and better UI. I was very much impressed as the installation was very smooth and I was up and running in less...

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SQLAuthority News – Download Whitepaper – Power View Infrastructure...

Power View, a feature of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition, is an interactive data exploration, visualization, and presentation...

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