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  • Whats in a BOL link?

    In using BOLyou will have noticed that the links in BOL contain some lovely guids. I often want to reference BOL in documents, forum posts etc but was concerned that the guids might change. So I asked Alan Brewer whether they change or not. He gave me a great response which I've got his permission...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, Aug 16 2007

  • OLAP or Relational? Its all irrelevant

    Chris Webb has mentioned an article about Ralph Kimball that discusses the what tool you should be using at the end of your BI process to present back to users. Should it be OLAP based or Relational based. We had exactly the same discussion in the pub after the UG meeting last week. In my view its just...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, May 4 2007

  • PASS 2006 - Shared disk is not a scale out solution

    At the end of the keynote today, Paul Flessner joined Steve Balmer for a short Q&A. One of the questions was around SQL Servers response to the Oracle RACK solution to provide a scale out solution. Paul's response was that the Oracle solution is not a scale out solution because the disk is shared...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, Nov 16 2006

  • CREATE or REPLACE feature request

    I remember back when I moved from Oracle to 6.5 I found the lack of a create or replace really annoying. Whenever I create new sps I always curse at not being able to do "create or replace myproc..." having to do "if exists (select 1 information_schema...)" or "if object_id(...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, Oct 19 2006
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