TechEd Bloggers Database Platform

Code Showing Inner Join of Two Excel Tables

Eric White — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:54:19 GMT

Eric White writes, "...posted some code that allows you to use LINQ to query Excel tables. The source for these queries is the Open XML document – you don’t need to involve the Excel application to query the data in these tables...This post shows a join of two tables using the extension methods and classes" more

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:54:19 GMT

RSWindowsNegotiate and 401 1 Error when using RS 2008

PSS SQL Engineers — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:24:52 GMT

PSS SQL Engineers writes, "...The key was that I configured the Service account to use the Domain user before it had started up at all. Out of the gate, I was using the Domain user account and never touched the Network Service account. This was done by way of specifying the Domain user account..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:24:52 GMT

How to Dynamic Sort With LINQ To SQL

Database Platform — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:55:31 GMT

Database Platform writes, "...This method takes in a column name to sort by and returns IQueryable. It works but looks like a lot of effort and appears miles away from any kind of normal LINQ code. Fortunately I can achieve the same results with this code..." more

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:55:31 GMT

Running the Same Query Against Multiple Databases

Scott Mitchell — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:15:49 GMT

Scott Mitchell writes, "One of my clients has a data-driven Software as a Service (SaaS) web application...that's used by various clinics and hospitals to track, schedule, and bill health care-related activities...The issue is that this quickly becomes a pain if you have many different databases. Here's where sp_MsForEachDb comes in - you can use it to run the above on each database with the following statement:" more

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:15:49 GMT

How to Split a Data Table

Matthieu Mezil — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:11:10 GMT

Matthieu Mezil writes, "...split a data table in two entities to do a sort of delay loading?...So how to do this? I do this with Northwind:" more

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:11:10 GMT

Entity Framework and Read Stored Procedures a New Perspective

Julie Lerman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:33:56 GMT

Julie Lerman writes, "...Rather than being tied to the function (stored procedures) and their parameter(s), you can query against the view any way you want providing any additional filters or other operators that you like, which will be part of the store command and be executed on the server. Additionally, you can use LINQ to Entities or ObjectQueries..." more

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:33:56 GMT

Q&A on SQLServer 2008 Compression Features

Paul Randal — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:28:54 GMT

Paul Randal writes, "Does turning on data compression or backup compression compress the transaction log files on disk?...Does data compression compress LOB columns?...Does log shipping use compression to compress the logs being shipped?..." more

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:28:54 GMT

SqlCE and Entity Framework Has Problems With 64

Nicklas Andersson — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:13:55 GMT

Nicklas Andersson writes, "I’ve been running on a 64 bit version of Windows for the first time the past week, and while most things have worked fine I had one problem that I had a hard time figuring out. An existing project, that worked fine before the upgrade, refused to compile. I also upgraded it to SP1 of Visual Studio 2008, so there were two possible sources for problems...." more

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:13:55 GMT

Policy Based Management and Understanding Intent

Buck Woody — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:37:59 GMT

Buck Woody writes, "...the SQL Server team created Policy Based Management (PBM) which can, for certain events anyway, capture the fact that something is “violating” your intent and even prevent some of the actions..." more

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:37:59 GMT

Best Practices for Integrated Full Text Search in SQL 2008

SQLCAT Team — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:20:08 GMT

SQLCAT Team writes, "The full text searches and queries are very fast if you can keep the full text indexes up to date. There are two choices – automatic or manual index updates. Most applications should be able to run with automatic tracking turned on. The higher volume transaction systems may start to experience some blocking on inserts and updates at times. The blocks are short and do not last more than a few milliseconds..." more

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:20:08 GMT

SQL Server 2008 Filestream and vb.net Sample Project with Script

Dave Noderer — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:53:22 GMT

Dave Noderer writes, "The basic idea is to have a SQL datatype you can use in queries and searches and is managed by SQL but which does not have any particular size limitation...I have created a vb project which illustrates using FILESTREAM… The presentation, visual studio project and sql script can all be found here..." more

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:53:22 GMT

Fix for SQL Server 2005 SPID Blocked By A SPID of -2

Michael Ruminer — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:09:14 GMT

Michael Ruminer writes, "If you get a SQL Server 2005 SPID that is being blocked until it times out and the blocking SPID is -2 you'll want to look at the following KB...In my case there is an orphaned DTC unit of work. I can find the UOW by running the following..." more

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:09:14 GMT

Workaround for ReadTrace Encountering Assertion Error

PSS SQL Engineers — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:21:00 GMT

PSS SQL Engineers writes, "In rare circumstances ReadTrace may encounter the following SQL Server 2008 assertion error when attempting to execute a parallel query..." more

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:21:00 GMT

Code to Truncate Log While Maintaining the SQL 2008 Database Recovery Model

Desiree Harris — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:21:56 GMT

Desiree Harris writes, "Here is a script that will truncate the database log while maintaining the database recovery model...Be sure to update the variable @sDbName to the --correct database name..." more

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:21:56 GMT

AD cmdlets in Server 2008 R2

Dmitry Sotnikov — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:39:59 GMT

Dmitry Sotnikov writes, "...If you look carefully through the list you will see that one of the snapins is called… activedirectory and contains 76 cmdlets. And these are just for the AD itself. There are other related snapins..." more

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:39:59 GMT

12,000 Concurrent Siebel CRM 8.0 Users On SQL Server 2008

SQLCAT Team — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:39:25 GMT

SQLCAT Team writes, "The benchmark demonstrated that the combination of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Siebel CRM Release 8.0 architecture and HP BL460c/BL680c Servers is a powerful and cost effective CRM solution..." more

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:39:25 GMT

SQL 2008 - Free with Classroom Training

Matthew Roche — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:18:31 GMT

Matthew Roche writes, "Microsoft Learning...is teaming up with the SQL Server...team to give away free copies of SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition to people who attend instructor-led classroom training at a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS). Here's the deal:" more

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:18:31 GMT

Azure Table Services vs SQL Services

Chris Kinsman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:14:22 GMT

Chris Kinsman writes, "Azure Storage Essential storage services in the cloud. Provides a core set of non-relational storage and processing abstractions at massive scale...Sql Services Rich database services in the cloud. Extends the power of sql server in a scalable way to the cloud..." more

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:14:22 GMT

SQL Server 2005 SP3 Beta Bug Fixes

Matt Masson — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:00:57 GMT

Matt Masson writes, "The service pack doesn't contain any new features for SSIS, but it does contain a number of bug fixes...Be sure to try it out and submit your feedback on the Connect site..." more

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:00:57 GMT

Start Planning a Backup Strategy

Paul Randal — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:42:21 GMT

Paul Randal writes, "what backups do you have to restore and how long does it take you? Are you able to restore within the maximum allowable downtime for your business? If you have a 300-GB database, and the downtime allowance is 15 minutes (as with one DBA I've known), the answer is no." more

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:42:21 GMT