Helping community in helping themselves... https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/feed.xml Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:41:26 GMT en-US hourly 1 Basic Storage Modes (MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP) in Analysis Services https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/basic-storage-modes-molap-rolap-and-holap-in-analysis-services Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:51:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/03/04/basic-storage-modes-molap-rolap-and-holap-in-analysis-services/ Basic Storage Modes (MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP) in Analysis Services
There are three standard storage modes (MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP) in OLAP applications which affect the performance of OLAP queries and cube processing, storage requirements and also determine storage locations. To learn more about these standard storage modes, pros and cons of each one, click here.

]]> SQL Server 2008 R2 - SQL Azure Enhancements https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/sql-server-2008-r2-sql-azure-enhancements Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:45:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/03/04/sql-server-2008-r2-sql-azure-enhancements/ SQL Server 2008 R2 - SQL Azure Enhancements
If you were unhappy with the capabilities of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) while working with SQL Azure, then there is good news for you. Microsoft has announced the November CTP for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. The SSMS of this version allows you to work with SQL Azure in almost the same way as when you are connected to a local SQL Server. In other words, now you can use your favorite Object Explorer in SSMS to browse through the database objects hosted in SQL Azure as well. In this article, I am going to show how you can use SSMS’s Object Browser to connect/browse to SQL Azure database. For more details click here.

]]> SQL Azure - Starting up... https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/sql-azure-starting-up Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:42:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/03/04/sql-azure-starting-up/ SQL Azure - Learning from scratch....

There has been lots of buzz about cloud computing lately and looking at the benefits it provides (in terms of cost savings, high availability, scalability (scale up/down) etc.) it is now evident that cloud computing is the future for next generation applications. Many of tomorrow's applications will be designed and hosted in the cloud. Microsoft realizes this potential and provides a cloud computing solution with Windows Azure. Windows Azure platform, which is hosted inside Microsoft data centers, offers several services which you can leverage while developing your application if you target them for the cloud. One of them is Microsoft SQL Azure, it's a cloud based relational database service built on Microsoft SQL Server technologies. In this article, I am going to show how you can start creating databases and database objects on the cloud with SQL Azure. For more details, click here.

]]> How to upgrade SSIS 2005 Packages to SSIS 2008 https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/how-to-upgrade-ssis-2005-packages-to-ssis-2008 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:46:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/03/04/how-to-upgrade-ssis-2005-packages-to-ssis-2008/

How to upgrade SSIS 2005 Packages to SSIS 2008
There are several enhancements in SSIS 2008 such as enhanced lookup transformation, the development environment for Script Task and Script Component changing from VSA to VSTA, etc. If you plan to upgrade your SSIS 2005 packages to SSIS 2008 it may be a challenging task especially if it uses the Script Task or Script Component because of the development environmental changes (from VSA to VSTA) . SSIS provides several different options to upgrade SSIS packages, for more details click here.

]]> Transfer SQL Server database schema objects and data to another server or database with SMO https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/transfer-sql-server-database-schema-objects-and-data-to-another-server-or-database-with-smo Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:48:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/02/12/transfer-sql-server-database-schema-objects-and-data-to-another-server-or-database-with-smo/ Transfer SQL Server database schema objects and data to another server or database with SMO
Have you wondered how Database Copy Wizard works behind the scenes? Do you have a requirement to create a copy of your database (say copy of your production database for development or testing) programmatically? In this article, I am going to show you how you can use SMO (SQL Server Management Objects) classes to transfer database objects and data to another server or database, to learn detail click here.

]]> Backup and Restore SQL Server databases programmatically with SMO https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/backup-and-restore-sql-server-databases-programmatically-with-smo Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:39:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/02/12/backup-and-restore-sql-server-databases-programmatically-with-smo/ Backup and Restore SQL Server databases programmatically with SMO

In this article I am going to provide examples to SQL Server Database Administrators on how to backup and restore SQL Server databases programmatically with SMO. I will start with how you can issue different types (Full, Differential and Log) of backups with SMO and how to restore them when required programmatically using SMO. Click here for more details.... 

]]> Generate SQL Scripts for database objects with SMO https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/generate-sql-scripts-for-database-objects-with-smo Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:36:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/02/12/generate-sql-scripts-for-database-objects-with-smo/ Generate SQL Scripts for database objects with SMO

In this article I take about how you can generate SQL object scripts programmatically. Though you can do this through SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) there might be times (more details on usage scenarios given below) when you would need to create SQL scripts automatically. Click here for more details....

]]> Accessing SQL Server programmatically with SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/accessing-sql-server-programmatically-with-sql-server-management-objects-smo Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:35:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/02/12/accessing-sql-server-programmatically-with-sql-server-management-objects-smo/ Accessing SQL Server programmatically with SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)

SQL Server 2005 and 2008 provide SQL Server Management Objects (SMO), a collection of namespaces which in turn contain different classes, interfaces, delegates and enumerations, to programmatically work with and manage a SQL Server instance. SMO extends and supersedes SQL Server Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) which was used for SQL Server 2000. In this article, I discuss how you can get started with SMO and how you can programmatically manage a SQL Server instance with your choice of programming language. Click here for more details.... 

 

]]> Database Impersonation with EXEC AS in SQL Server https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/database-impersonation-with-exec-as-in-sql-server Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:27:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/02/12/database-impersonation-with-exec-as-in-sql-server/ Database Impersonation with EXEC AS in SQL Server

SQL Server 2005/2008 provides the ability to change the execution/security context with the EXEC or EXECUTE AS clause. You can explicitly change the execution context by specifying a login or user name in an EXECUTE AS statement for batch execution or by specifying the EXECUTE AS clause in a module (stored procedure, triggers and user-defined functions) definition. Once the execution context is switched to another login or user name, SQL Server verifies the permission against the specified login or user (specified with EXECUTE AS statement) for subsequent execution instead of the execution context of current user. To learn more about this feature and how it works click here.]]> Executing dynamic SQL scripts on remote SQL Server with EXEC AT statement https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/arali/executing-dynamic-sql-scripts-on-remote-sql-server-with-exec-at-statement Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:26:00 GMT https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/arali/2010/02/12/executing-dynamic-sql-scripts-on-remote-sql-server-with-exec-at-statement/ Executing dynamic SQL scripts on remote SQL Server with EXEC AT statement

With SQL Server 2000, we had OPENQUERY and OPENROWSET to execute a pass-through query on the specified server, but it has several inherent limitations. Starting with SQL Server 2005 we have another more elegant way using "EXEC AT" to execute a pass-through query on the specified linked server which also addresses several shortcomings of OPENQUERY and OPENROWSET table functions. This article talks about this new way of executing dynamic SQL scripts on the remote server in SQL Server 2005 and 2008.

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