(Dattatrey Sindol) I am a BI developer and have been moved recently to a DBA role. Among the many tasks that I am responsible for, two major ones are: monitoring the SQL Server Agent Jobs running on a set of servers by creating a few standard SSRS reports and creating a Reference Manual/One Stop Gui
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Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB Recently I have been looking at the DynamoDB from Amazon. This is a new offering that at the time of the document in the previous link, was still in beta. I am not sure of the current state. This is a NoSQL engine having much of the elasticity of MS Azure. A pay as you go model allows […]
REST – OData vs. GData
New SSWUGtv Show Avoiding surprises with your SQL Server configuration… who is changing what? Raj Sabhlok of ManageEngine on the show to talk about more holistic monitoring of your servers, plus Laura Rose with time management tips. [Watch the Show] REST – OData vs. GData Are these two different protocols really the same thing? As you may know, the intention […]
Change the name of the SQL Server
(Leslie Vail) Sometimes it comes up that we need to change the name of the SQL Server. Below is a quick and dirty checklist on how to accomplish this task. I feel certain there are several iterations of this all over the Internet – now there is one more .
Big Data and SQL Server: Disruption or Harmony?
(Andrew J. Brust) The SQL Server relational engine matured a long time ago. There have been advances, of course, in performance, fault tolerance and high availability, not mention encryption, compression and file-system integration.
Slowly Changing Dimensions
(James Serra) When designing a data warehouse, how you handle changes to dimensional data over time is the most important decision to make. It is rare that a dimension will remain static over time. For example, a customer may change their phone number or their address, or a sales person may change
Oracle Releases Communications Data Model 11.2.5
(wubayou) Will competitors such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and SAP follow Oracle’s lead when it comes to big data? Some analysts believe so, as they claim Oracle’s recent release of its Big Data Appliance running Cloudera’s distribution of Apache Hadoop will likely catch the eye of IT managers looking
ODM 11gR2–Attribute Importance
(Brendan Tierney) I had a previous blog post on Data Exploration using Oracle Data Miner 11gR2. This blog post builds on the steps illustrated in that blog post.
SQL Developer Trick: Double-Click to Go Full Screen
(Jeff Smith) No matter how many monitors you have or how large they may be, sometimes you just need more real-estate for your coding. You can have a whole lot going on in your IDE, and SQL Developer is no exception. Of course you can always close or hide the offending panels and windows, but then it
JWS special issue: reasoning with context in the Semantic Web, v12 (2012)
(Tim Finin) Volume 12 of the Journal of Web Semantics is a special issue on special lssue on reasoning with context in the Semantic Web edited by Los Lehmann, Ivan Jose Varzinczak and Alan Bundy.