User-defined functions (UDFs) – Part-2 Author: Basit A. Farooq Editor’s Note: In this second of the two part article series, you’ll about creating and using in-line table functions, and multi-statement table functions. You used CREATE FUNCTION, ALTER FUNCTION, DROP FUNCTION, and SQL Server Management Studio to create and manage functions. You learned about a related object, CLR aggregates. Creating a […]
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Attribute Discretization Part I: Introduction and Overview
Attribute Discretization Part I: Introduction and Overview This is the charter article of the SSWUG Elemental SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional 2012 series. – In this and subsequent parts of the article, we will introduce attribute discretization in SQL Server Analysis Services (“SSAS”) – Multidimensional, focusing upon the purpose and benefits of this capability, which, as we shall see, affords...
SQL Server 2012 Profiler Optimization Tips
SQL Server 2012 Profiler Optimization Tips SQL Server 2012 Profiler is a graphical user interface for monitoring an instance of the Database Engine or Analysis Services. SQL Server Profiler allows to capture and save data about each event to a file or table to analyze later. In this article, you can find some tips to performance tune and optimize SQL...
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 2
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 2 In this, the second of a three-part article focusing upon the PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod() time series functions, we will continue to expose member and set functions that we can use to perform analysis within the context of time. As we discussed in Part 1, many business requirements revolve around...
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: ClosingPeriod(), LastPeriods() and ParallelPeriod(), Pt. 1
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: ClosingPeriod(), LastPeriods() and ParallelPeriod(), Pt. 1 In this three-part article, we will introduce the ClosingPeriod(), LastPeriods() and ParallelPeriod() time series functions, continuing our recent forays into functions that we can exploit to perform analysis within the context of time. This article follows an examination of a couple of other such time series functions in...
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 3
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 3 In this, the third of a three-part article focusing upon the PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod() time series functions, we will continue to expose functions that we can use to perform analysis within the context of time. As we discussed in Part 1, many business requirements revolve around theperformance of analysis...
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 2
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 2 by William E. Pearson, III In this, the second of a three-part article focusing upon the PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod() time series functions, we will continue to expose member and set functions that we can use to perform analysis within the context of time. As we discussed in Part 1,...
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 1
Elemental MDX: MDX Time Series Functions: PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod(), Pt. 1 In this three-part article, we will introduce the PeriodsToDate() and OpeningPeriod() time series functions, which we can exploit to perform analysis within the context of time. As we have discussed in other articles of the Elemental MDX series, many business requirements revolve around theperformance of analysis within the context...
XML Support and SQL Server (Part 3)
XML Support and SQL Server (Part 3) By Basit A. Farooq This article is the third part of the XML support and SQL Server article series. In this part, I’ll first talk about what fundamental problems we have in integration XML and SQL Server. Then, I’ll cover what storage options we have in SQL Server to store the XML data...