iT-Workplace - Home of Intelligencia

 

Intelligencia Query delivers add-in functionality for Visual Studio that transforms the task of creating OLAP reports with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. State-of-the-art query tools are combined with a custom data extension that understands how OLAP reporting should work. With Intelligencia Query you get:

• Queries are built the way that your report is to be displayed. There are no restrictions on where each dimension can be displayed or how many dimensions can appear on an axis.
• Only the data required to fulfil your report is returned making IQ faster and more efficient than the default Reporting Services data extension.
• Performance is further enhanced by providing techniques for building drilldown reports that only return drilled data as it is required.
• The flexibility of the query builder dramtically reduces the need to "hand-crank" Mdx leading to better maintainability and reduced skill requirements.
• Table and Matrix report items are supported allowing all types of reports to be created without having to resort to SQL queries via the Analysis Services ODBO interface.
• Intelligencia Query support SAP BW and Congons TM1 in addition to all versions of SQL Server Analysis Services.    

iT-Workplace - Home of Intelligencia

Dynamic MDX in Reporting Services | The Frog-Blog

 

This post explains how you can build a dynamic MDX query in Reportins Services, customised to the users requirements. This can often bring some quite major performance benefits.

Dynamic MDX in Reporting Services | The Frog-Blog

SQL Server Policy-Based Management in SQL 2000/2005

 

Using PBM Against SQL2K and SQL2K5

We get this question a lot: can I use PBM against a SQL2K & SQL2K5 instances. The quick answer is yes but in a limited fashion. PBM is ultimately based on SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) and SMO supports SQL2K, SQL2K5, and SQL2K8. PBM relies on some changes to the DB engine which are not available in versions below SQL2K8, therefore, not all PBM functionality  is available in SQL2K and SQL2K5.

SQL Server Policy-Based Management

SQL Server Data Mining in the Cloud | SQLServerPedia

Analyzing Perfmon data with the SQL 2008 data mining tools.

In our particular example, we can see that Category 8 is the highest TempDB load.  Innnnteresting - earlier, I’d discarded categories over 5 because they represented a low amount of time, but it looks like we’ll have to go back and revisit category 8. Category 8 was Friday mornings from midnight to 4am, so we might have something going on then.

SQL Server Data Mining in the Cloud | SQLServerPedia

Using FILESTREAM to Store BLOBs in the NTFS File System in SQL Server 2008

 

Using FILESTREAM to Store BLOBs in the NTFS File System in SQL Server 2008

Using FILESTREAM to Store BLOBs in the NTFS File System in SQL Server 2008

The Data Miner: September 2008

 

Here's a recap of what's new for Data Mining in SQL Server 2008:

• The Microsoft_Time_Series algorithm has been enhanced to include ARIMA in addition to the existing ARTxp method, and a blending algorithm is now used to deliver more accurate and stable predictions, both short and long term, from a hybrid model. In addition, a new prediction mode allows you to add new data to time series models. (See below for a neat app that will let you explore these features.)

• Built-in support for holdout has been added. You can easily partition your data into training and test sets that are stored in the mining structure and are available to query after processing.

• You can now build mining models on filtered subsets of a mining structure's data (e.g. just male customers), which means that you no longer have to create multiple mining structures and re-read the source data for such variations over a dataset.

• Drillthrough functionality has been extended to make all mining structure columns available, not just columns included in the model. This allows you to build more compact models without sacrificing the ability to producing actionable output reports like targeted mailing lists.

• The much-requested cross-validation feature has been added, allowing users to quickly validate their modeling approach by automatically building temporary models and evaluating accuracy measures across K folds. The feature is available through a new cross-validation tab under Accuracy Charts in Business Intelligence Development Studio, in addition to being accessible programmatically via a stored procedure call.

The Data Miner: September 2008

Business Intelligence LAB - Home

 

Project Description
Business Intelligence LAB is a Microsoft Business Intelligence Framework that is developped based on real life needs.
This repository hosts a set of development done upon SQL Server Business Intelligence Stack.
This covers :
- Data Access
- Sample Cube
- Sample OLAP Viewer
- XMLA
- SSIS custom component
Those component comes from my experience and my needs. Some were published on French .net community (http://www.techheadbrothers.com/) under :
http://www.techheadbrothers.com/Auteurs.aspx/renaud-harduin

Last edited May 18 at 11:21 AM by rhmBILAB, version 2

Business Intelligence LAB - Home

Andrew Kennedy's Blog : Units of Measure in F#: Part One, Introducing Units

Why doesn’t the US use the metric system?  That year, Congress went on summer vacation before the bill was supposed to be passed….

Measure conversion has caused numerous (and disastrous problems).  Think of litres to gallons conversion in an airplane, and really quickly you see how someone could run out of gas if they aren’t using the correct units of measure.

MS is trying to fix this with typed unit recognition in programming languages.

As recently announced in the September 2008 F# CTP (Community Technical Preview), the F# programming language now has full support for static checking and inference of units-of-measure. In this series of articles I'll gently introduce the feature. (If you're not familiar with F#, look here.) We've already been testing out the units-of-measure feature inside Microsoft and I'm amazed at the diversity of applications that are turning up. Of course, there are the obvious applications to scientific computing, and games (which are all about physics, after all), but we're seeing applications in machine learning, finance, search (think click rates, etc) and others.

Andrew Kennedy's Blog : Units of Measure in F#: Part One, Introducing Units

Data Mining in the Cloud

Mine your Data, Any Place, Any Time

The SQL Server Data Mining team is working to extend the power and ease of use of SQL Server Data Mining to the Cloud. Our goal is provide services that allow you to build rich, predictive applications without worrying about server infrastructure, and showcase these services with cool applications that give you a glimpse of what’s possible. We bring you a technology preview of our work below. Enjoy!

Current Projects

Table Analysis Tools for the Cloud

Build powerful predictive reports on your data with just a few clicks!
- No data mining expertise required
- No server installation required
- All you need is your Internet connection

http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud/

Is Excel a Complete BI Solution? | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog

The answer should be no in my opinion…  for large amounts of data Excel is not the right tool by itself, and usually BI is all about analyzing large amounts of data.  

However, the comfort of using Excel to analyze numbers isn’t something that’s going away any time soon.

What makes it a BI tool?

• Excel can be (and is often) used for operational reporting, by connecting to databases, and also for analysis and dashboards using pivot tables and charts (plus the power of VBA — Visual Basic for Applications).
• Excel does not necessarily have to be embedded in other applications.
• Excel certainly has sufficient market presence, well exceeding the stipulation above.
• Excel comfortably crosses $40 million in revenues, even when constrained for reporting and analysis usage. (Microsoft Office accounts for some $10 billion annual revenue, give or take a couple.)

Is Excel a Complete BI Solution? | The Intelligent Enterprise Blog

Searching Google for Sheet1 filetype:xls shows us there is a long way to go before getting rid of Excel.

Results 1 - 10 of about 2,000,000 for sheet1 filetype:xls. (0.28 seconds)

Sparks from the Anvil – Connection String from Analysis Services

 

SSAS Stored Procedures - connecting to the transactional data source

There are often circumstances where an SSAS stored procedure needs to connect to the transactional database to perform a query.  This is certainly the case in a near-real-time OLAP solution where the cube sits directly on top of the application database and dynamic dimension security is implemented by a stored proc. Here the SSAS stored procedure has to query the transactional database in order to get the user's authorisation. Clearly the SSAS database has a data source and it uses this connection to process the cube. So how do we get the connection string?

Well the short code snippet below provides the solution. The code simply connects back to the current database using AMO and obtains the connection string from the data source object. It then removes the redundant "Provider=SQLNCLI.1;" before returning a valid SQL connection string that can be used by SqlConnection().

Sparks from the Anvil

Jason Morales' Microsoft BI Update : The Business Intelligence Update - September 2008

 

The Business Intelligence Update - September 2008

HOT TOPICS

Register NOW for the 2nd Annual Microsoft BI Conference - click here!

25% Discount Promotion - Microsoft Office SharePoint ECAL / PerformancePoint Server CAL

*** extended through September 30, 2008

Assessment Tool for Business Intelligence

- compare your infrastructure against industry best practices and the latest IT research

Online Demo: Geospatial Business Intelligence

-  by integrating Virtual Earth and PerformancePoint

-  Blog: More on Virtual Earth & PPS

Business intelligence basics: case studies and job advice

Five keys to hiring (good) business intelligence professionals

Leveraging business and marketing skills for a business intelligence (BI) career

UPCOMING EVENTS

How does it all stack up?

6 part Seminar Series, sponsored by Inetium & Microsoft

Sept 18

Omaha, NE

Click here to register

Dashboard in a Day - sponsored by Quilogy

Sept 16 - Omaha, NE

Sept 18 - Chicago, IL

Click here to learn more and register

The Next Generation of Business Intelligence

Executive Roundtable Breakfast Series, sponsored by Neudesic & Microsoft

Sept 18 - Denver, CO

Sept 30 - Las Vegas, NV

Microsoft BI Conference

Oct 6-8 - Seattle, WA

www.microsoftbiconference.com

Managing Performance with PerformancePoint

Planning, Financial Reporting, Monitoring and Analytics for Dynamics GP 10

Oct 8 - Mountain View, CA

Click here to register

PASS Community Summit 2008

Nov 18-21 - Seattle, WA

Click here to learn more

Find Events & Webcasts

UPCOMING WEBCASTS

* all times listed below are for Pacific time zone

Microsoft Business Intelligence for Retail - sponsored by Solver

Sept 11, 11am

Click here to register

Using Your SharePoint Portal to Communicate Business Intelligence presented by Quilogy

Sept 11, 1 pm

Click here to register

Achieving Business Intelligence Across the Enterprise presented by Thorogood

Sept 18, 9am - Realize Fast & Effective Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

Click here to register

NEWS LINKS & PRESS RELEASES

SQL Server 2008: First Impressions

BIScorecard Rates Eight Leading Products

An Effective Business Intelligence Strategy is the Key to Business Success

Next-generation BI at Hand, Forrester Reports

Gartner lists Microsoft India as leading vendor of BI

Information Agility

Who doesn't want to be agile?

The Business Intelligence Model of Conflicting Interests

Is Excel a Complete BI Solution?

Pervasive business intelligence: Are organizations really ready?

Seven Steps to Successful BI Competency Centers

Business Intelligence: Distilling Raw Data into Useful Information

The Business Intelligence Education Problem

Full Circle: Decision Intelligence (DSS 2.0)

Contact Me if you'd like to receive monthly emails of Jason Morales' Microsoft BI Update

Jason Morales' Microsoft BI Update : The Business Intelligence Update - September 2008

Gregg Stark on SQL Server

 

Remove Extra Spaces when Pasting from Outlook to Sql Server Management Studio

I seem to have this problem that when I paste sql code from my email into Sql Server Management Studio that it doubles all the line breaks and I have to go and remove them all.  Most of the time this isn't a big deal because the Sql is only a couple lines.  However if you get a ton of Sql emailed to you it can be quite annoying.  I finally found a way to quickly get rid of them.  Simply bring up the find and replace window and change the find to use Regular Expressions.  Then do a find on \n\n and replace that with \n. 

Gregg Stark on SQL Server

SQL Server 2008 Extended Events Manager - Home

 

Project Description

SQL 2008 Extended Events are a powerful new way of troubleshooting problems with SQL Server. One short coming is that there is no UI support for this new feature. The Extended Events Manager is a C# .NET winforms application that aims to simplify creating and viewing metadata for Extended Events Sessions in SQL 2008.
This project was initially published on the MSDN Code Gallery:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/ExtendedEventManager/

SQL Server 2008 Extended Events Manager - Home

New Zealand IE8 Taskforce : Introducing the IE8 Developer Tools JScript Profiler

 

The recently released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8 contains a lot of improvements which are aimed at making developing web applications on Internet Explorer 8 easier and more productive. One of these improvements is the JScript Profiler in Developer Tools, which provides critical JScript related performance data to a web developer that helps identify and fix performance related issues. We believe the Profiler is going to be a very helpful tool to fine tune the performance of the scripts in a web application. It is lightweight, easy-to-use and provides the following features:

• Provides performance data for JScript functions in two views:
  • Functions View – a flat listing of all the functions
  • Call Tree view – a hierarchical listing of the functions based on the call flow
• Supports exporting the data to a file
• Provides an inferred name for anonymous functions
• Profiles built-in JScript functions
• Supports multiple profile reports
• Supports profiling across page navigation and refreshes

This post gives an overview of the Profiler and highlights some of its features. We hope you will try it out and give us your feedback.

New Zealand IE8 Taskforce : Introducing the IE8 Developer Tools JScript Profiler

Host and compile C# in Excel Services

Who says you can’t write C# Code in Excel?

Probably not what you were expecting…

I wrote a quick console application while testing Excel Services which uses the code provided by Robbe Morris to compile a .NET application on the fly, using source code stored as text format in an Excel spreadsheet and published to Excel Services.

So now you can write C# code in Excel and compile without Visual Studio, and host in a central location. 

Please comment if you can think of a good (or bad) application for this.  I can think of a few.

• How about allowing the business to write custom code snippets? 
• Storing business logic & data tiers in a spreadsheet? 
• Complex calculations that require the power of C# or external libraries to run?

Or maybe just something to add to the list of stupid Excel tricks.

Here is the code to go with this solution.  (Limited to under 50 lines stored in the text).

using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Text; 
using System.Xml; 
using System.Web.Services.Protocols; 
using System.Security.Principal; 
using SourceCodeManager; 
using System.Reflection; 
using System.Diagnostics; 

namespace HelloWorldConsoleApp 
{ 
    class Program 
    { 
        private const string Workbook = @"http://bi-vpc/Reports/ReportsLibrary/CodeSnippet.xlsx"; 
        static void Main(string[] args) 
        { 
            es.ExcelService s = new es.ExcelService(); 
            s.SoapVersion = SoapProtocolVersion.Soap12; 
            string sessionId = null; 

            try 
            { 
                s.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials; 
                es.Status[] status; 
                Console.WriteLine("Opening"); 
                sessionId = s.OpenWorkbook(Workbook, String.Empty, String.Empty, out status); 
                Console.WriteLine("Session ID: {0}", sessionId); 
                Debug.WriteLine(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.ToString()); 
                Debug.WriteLine(Workbook); 
                Debug.WriteLine(sessionId); 
                object cellVal; 
                StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 

                for (int i = 1; i < 50; i++) 
                { 
                    cellVal = s.GetCellA1(sessionId, "Sheet1", "A" + i.ToString(), true, out status); 
                    Debug.WriteLine(cellVal); 
                    sb.Append(cellVal); 
                } 

                Debug.Write(sb.ToString()); 
                Console.Write(sb.ToString()); 
                string returnMsg = CompileCode(sb.ToString()); // The magic happens here
                Debug.WriteLine(returnMsg); 
                Console.WriteLine(returnMsg); 

            } 
            catch (SoapException ex) 
            { 
                Debug.WriteLine("Error: {0} ", ex.SubCode.Code.Name); 
                Console.WriteLine("Error: {0} ", ex.SubCode.Code.Name); 

            } 
            catch (Exception ex) 
            { 
                Debug.WriteLine("Unknown Error: " + ex.ToString()); 
                Console.WriteLine("Unknown Error: {0}", ex); 
            } 
            finally 
            { 
                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(sessionId)) 
                    s.CloseWorkbook(sessionId); 
                s = null; 
            } 

        } 
        protected static string CompileCode(string sourceText) 
        { 
            SourceCodeManager.Runtime runtime = new SourceCodeManager.Runtime(); 
            SourceCodeManager.CodeContainer codeContainer = null; 
            string methodName = "Validate"; 
            object[] parameters = null; 

            try 
            { 

                // Simulate pulling code from disk or from database. 

                codeContainer = new SourceCodeManager.CodeContainer(); 
                codeContainer.ClassName = "MyClassName"; 
                codeContainer.NameSpace = "MyNameSpace"; 
                codeContainer.UniqueKey = "robbe"; 
                codeContainer.SourceCode = sourceText; 

                // Compare this code with that which is set in 
                // our static List<CodeContainer> by the UniqueKey. 
                // If not found, compile and add. 
                // If found but source code is different, delete, compile, and add. 
                // If found and source code is the same, grab reference to 
                // previously compiled assembly. 

                SourceCodeManager.Registration.Update(codeContainer); 

                // Let's create some sample parameters to pass into 
                // our dynamically compiled class/method. 

                parameters = new object[2]; 

                List<int> parameter1 = new List<int>(); 

                parameter1.Add(5); 
                parameter1.Add(10); 

                List<int> parameter2 = new List<int>(); 

                parameter2.Add(50); 
                parameter2.Add(100); 

                parameters[0] = parameter1; 
                parameters[1] = parameter2; 

                // Execute the desired method and pass in our parameters. 
                // Our Execute method will always return an object.  So, 
                // we need to know its actual desired return type ahead 
                // of time if we want to convert it to the property Type. 

                bool returnValue = (bool)runtime.Execute(codeContainer, 
                                                         methodName, 
                                                         parameters); 

                return "Method result: " + returnValue.ToString(); 

            } 
            catch (Exception err) 
            { 

                return err.ToString(); 
            } 
            finally { 

                runtime = null; 

            } 
        } 
    } 
} 

 USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

ASP.NET 2.0 - Safely Compile And Execute Source Code Dynamically By Robbe Morris

How to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP & Get Virtual PC VPC Network working

 

The 4 steps to setting up a network and VPC.

1. Add the MS Loopback Adapter to your physical machine, with a static IP Address (this is actually harder to do than it sounds; it took me about half an hour to find how to install it).
2. Configure all my virtual machines with 3 network cards: One tied to the wireless card, one tied to the ethernet card, and one tied to the loopback adapter.
3. Configure the first two cards with DHCP, and the last one with a static IP different from the host machine's one.
4. Add entries in the host files of all machines using the static ip addresses to enable quick name resolution.

Thanks Tomas

How to install the Microsoft Loopback adapter in Windows XP

Collation, DateTime, SParse Column and XML : Using SQL Server 2008 Semi-Structured features for Performance Tuning and Application Design (1)

Taking advantage of sparse columns and data compression in SQL 2008.

The above result shows that Page Compression has the best compression rate which is 16% of the original size, and the size of sparse column table is 31%, while row compression is 36%. Data Compression has a nice stored procedure sp_estimate_data_compression_savings which can estiamte the space saving by sampling data into tempdb, and compress the sampled data. The result is listed in “Estimated Saving” column in the table. I will also discuss the changing time later in this blog.

Collation, DateTime, SParse Column and XML : Using SQL Server 2008 Semi-Structured features for Performance Tuning and Application Design (1)

Description of Typical Services Registry Keys Under Hkey_Local_Machine

After installing SQL2008 as a named instance, you can stop/start from a command line using NET STOP MSSQL$SQL2008 and NET START MSSQL$SQL2008.

Unfortunately mine failed with this error when I tried to start.

The SQL Server (SQL2008) service terminated with service-specific error 1455 (0x5AF).

Then I got this error.  The dreaded sysfader.

Application popup: SysFader: iexplore.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x30037c61" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read".

Click on OK to terminate the program
Click on CANCEL to debug the program

Will try a reboot and see what happens.

I put together a quick C# utility that lists all services on a machine and provides searching capabilities called ListService.

From a command line:  ListService.exe %1

Where %1 is the service name you are searching for. Leave blank to show all services under the registry key SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

It’s called ListServiceSetup.msi and requires .NET 2.0 Framework and Windows Installer 3.1.

It’s only(!) 32k and you can delete the .config file.  Should be around 2k with the 10 lines of code in it… but that’s .NET for you.  The installation package is a whopping 342k.

You can download from here:

ListService 0.0.0.1 beta installer

http://www.wavesmash.com/download/utils/

Description of Typical Services Registry Keys Under Hkey_Local_Machine

Jamie's Junk : KDD 2008 and Incredibly Awesome SQL 2008 Data Mining Demos

Data mining hits the cloud.

Currently the technology demonstration allows you to access the Table Analysis Tools for Excel 2007 by connecting to our hosted data mining service, meaning you can use the Table Analysis Tools anywhere at anytime without connectivity to your local IT infrastructure.  Additionally there is a web interface that allows you to upload a limited amount of data and play with the tools without even having Excel!  Currently only a few of the tools are implemented in the web interface.  If for any reason you haven't had a chance to grab those amazing Table Analysis Tools and see what SQL Server Data Mining can do for you - run, don't walk, over to http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com/cloud/ and try them out right now!

Jamie's Junk : KDD 2008 and Incredibly Awesome SQL 2008 Data Mining Demos

SQL Server 2008 Overview, data platform, store data | Microsoft

My step-by-step screen shot installation of SQL 2008.  Not a best-practice installation by any means.

Mount the ISO using Microsoft Virtual CDROM.

Run Setup

• Installs .net 3.5 sp1
• Installs patch for windows xp
• Reboots

Run System Checker

Install Upgrade Advisor

Install single instance.

Next screen is product key (not shown here)

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Rule Check Result

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Rule "Windows Firewall" generated a warning.

The Windows Firewall is enabled. Make sure the appropriate ports are open to enable remote access. See the rules documentation at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=94001 for information about ports to open for each feature.

---------------------------

OK

---------------------------

Next screen you select Windows or Mixed mode and add admins to SQL (Removed from here)

Next screen you add admins to Analysis Services (removed from here)

---------------------------

Rule Check Result

---------------------------

Rule "Previous releases of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008" failed.

A previous release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is installed on this computer. Upgrade Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 to the SP1 before installing SQL Server 2008.

---------------------------

OK

---------------------------

And wait.  And wait.  And wait. And wait.  About 1 hour later.

 

And wait

The following notes apply to this release of SQL Server only.

Microsoft Update

For information about how to use Microsoft Update to identify updates for SQL Server 2008, see the Microsoft Update Web site <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108409> at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108409.

Reporting Services

The Reporting Services installation options that you specified in Setup determine whether additional configuration is required before you can access the report server. If you installed the default configuration, the report server can be used immediately. If you installed the program files only, you must run the Reporting Services Configuration tool to deploy the report server.

To install the Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies, start the rsSharePoint.msi in the Setup folder on the SQL Server 2008 installation media after SQL Server Setup is complete.

Documentation and Samples

To install the .NET Framework SDK, see “Installing the .NET Framework SDK” in SQL Server 2008 Books Online <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114089> at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=114089.

By default, sample databases and sample code are not installed as part of SQL Server Setup. To install sample databases and sample code for non-Express editions of SQL Server 2008, see the CodePlex Web site <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=87843> at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=87843. To read about support for SQL Server sample databases and sample code for SQL Server Express, see Databases and Samples Overview <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110391> on the CodePlex Web site at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=110391.

For more information about late-breaking changes in this release of SQL Server, see the latest readme file <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=100093> at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=100093.

For information about SQL Server 2008 Surface Area Configuration, see the following SQL Server 2008 documentation topics:

In SQL Server 2008 Books Online: “Understanding Surface Area Configuration.”

In SQL Server 2008 Setup Help: “Minimize SQL Server 2008 Surface Area.”

In SQL Server 2008 Books Online on MSDN: Understanding Surface Area Configuration <http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106282>         at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=106282.

SQL Server 2008 Overview, data platform, store data | Microsoft

SQL Server 2008 Extended Events Manager - Home

 

SQL 2008 Extended Events are a powerful new way of troubleshooting problems with SQL Server. One short coming is that there is no UI support for this new feature. The Extended Events Manager is a C# .NET winforms application that aims to simplify creating and viewing metadata for Extended Events Sessions in SQL 2008.

Planned Functionality:

• View Extended Events Metadata for all Available Objects
• View Event Sessions on a Server
• Start/Stop Events Sessions
• Create new Event Sessions
• Alter existing Event Sessions
• Drop Event Session
• Script all operations
• View information stored in targets for active Event Sessions

Release Notes

This project was placed on CodePlex at the following address per the rules of the SQL 2008 Heros contest:
http://www.codeplex.com/ExtendedEventManager/
all builds of the project, source code, and documentation have been placed there with Issue Tracking enabled,
as well as discussions enabled. If you would like to download the project, report a bug, or request a feature
be added, please visit the above link.

SQL Server 2008 Extended Events Manager - Home

Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance: Sample T-SQL Scripts for Backup/Restore and Index and Statistics Maintenance

What every DBA should know.

Here are some sample T-SQL scripts for backing up and restoring databases and transaction logs (using AdventureWorks on the C: drive, which would not be a good idea in reality). They also show how to detach and attach a database, and how to do some basic index and statistics maintenance.  This was originally for the MCIS-4423 class that I teach at Denver University.

Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance: Sample T-SQL Scripts for Backup/Restore and Index and Statistics Maintenance

Re: Hyperlink not working - MSDN Forums – Tip

For the jump to Url functionality in a report…

 

Instead of "localhost/application/page.aspx?id=" + Fields!ID.Value

Use "localhost/application/page.aspx&id=" + Fields!ID.Value

Use a & instead of the + sign just in front of your field value. I can't explain why but that's how I got it to work...

Re: Hyperlink not working - MSDN Forums