http://www.databasejournal.com en-us Copyright 1996-2006 Jupitermedia Corporation rss@jupitermedia.com rss@jupitermedia.com http://backend.userland.com/rss 08:00 am September 30, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3774606 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3774606 This article discusses a new Oracle Database 11gR1 feature - Adaptive Cursor Sharing - and illustrates how to use it in practical situations to limit hard parsing of SQL statements with bind variables while increasing the relative execution efficiency of those statements. 08:00 am September 29, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771871 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771871 Data Collections are a great tool that allows DBAs to gather different statistics, and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW) is the repository for storing those statistics. This article offers an overview of Data Collections and how to configure the MDW. 08:00 am September 26, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3773091 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3773091 Part 19 digs deep into two of SQL 2005's ranking functions: RANK() and DENSE_RANK(). It includes performance considerations and using CTEs to avoid table variables. 08:00 am September 25, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/sybase/article.php/3769756 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/sybase/article.php/3769756 This article offers an overview of what is needed in a robust data synchronization system. 08:00 am September 24, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3772501 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3772501 The DBMS_PROFILER package has been around since at least Oracle8i days, yet it seems to get short shrift in many of the tuning books and online discussion forums. Learn how easy it is to implement and perhaps you'll add this built-in to your tuning arsenal. 08:00 am September 23, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3772391 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3772391 The ability to choose grouping criteria at run time can mean the selection and delivery of enterprise data in a more focused and consumer-friendly manner. It also means doing more with fewer reports. BI Architect Bill Pearson leads a hands-on demonstration of a way to parameterize grouping with runtime sorting options. 08:00 am September 22, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771651 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771651 The previous installment of our series began an overview of a distributed Service Broker environment. This article describes the remaining steps necessary to facilitate communication between services residing on separate computers in the same Windows domain, including assigning permissions to execute Service Broker-specific tasks and defining Adjacent Broker Protocol routes. 08:00 am September 19, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771561 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771561 Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his exploration of Attribute Member Keys in another member of a group of articles surrounding significant components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In this article we resume our examination of Attribute Member Keys, focusing upon composite keys and their properties. 08:00 am September 17, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771046 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771046 This fifth installment of the “Check your SQL Server using Windows PowerShell” series illustrates how to access SQL Server instance properties and SQL Server configuration details using Windows PowerShell. 08:00 am September 16, 2008 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771296 http://redir.internet.com/rss/click/www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3771296 Part 1 of this series discusses the prerequisites for SQL Server cluster installation. Subsequent installments will provide step-by-step examples of SQL Server 2008 cluster installation.