The Instant Poll in the July 11 SQL Server Magazine UPDATE posed the question, "Do you think Microsoft should be held financially liable for defective software?" The poll received 897 responses, 53 percent of which were "Yes." (To see the poll...
Bulk copy program (bcp) lets you copy data out of SQL Server based on the result set of a query that's specified on the bcp command line. The Q&A "Does the SQL Server 7.0 version of bulk copy program (bcp) let you create an output file from a...
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Sometimes, you need to create a cube that has only calculated measures visible because the only measures useful in some types of analysis are measures that are derived from multiple loaded measures (i.e., those from the fact table) or from some...
I recently received an eye-opener about the value of business intelligence (BI) for the enterprise. At this spring's Microsoft Tech Ed 2002 conference, I served as a judge for the SQL Server Magazine and Windows & .NET Magazine Best of Show...