Tech Guy on February 23rd, 2010

SQL Server provides a method of retrieving data from more than one table using joins. A join can be defined as an operation that includes the retrieval of data from more than one table at a time.

A join is implemented using the SELECT statement, in which the SELECT list contains the name of the columns [...]

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Raju Sachin on February 23rd, 2010

If we change SQL Server machine’s computer name, the new name doesn’t take to effect immediately to SQL server. This article will solve this problem.

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Raju Sachin on October 6th, 2009

The following table compares the maximum sizes and numbers of various objects defined in SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 databases or referenced in Transact-SQL statements. The table does not include Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Windows CE Edition. The table has the technical [...]

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Tech Guy on September 22nd, 2009

Microsoft says that SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) “is a platform for building high performance data integration solutions, including extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) packages for data warehousing.” A simpler way to think of SSIS is that it’s the solution for automating SQL Server. SSIS provides a way to build packages made up of tasks [...]

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Tech Guy on September 8th, 2009

There may be situations where you need to delete all the tables in a database, or clean all rows in all the tables or truncate all the tables in database. If the database contains only few tables then it is not a problem, Otherwise it would be a major task to clean the database.
Luckily Microsoft [...]

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Tech Guy on September 8th, 2009

Overview of Consistency Errors
A DBCC CHECKDB statement may report consistency errors in your database when all the following conditions are true:

SQL Server loads data into a column that is a sql_variant data type.
The data originates in another column that is a sql_variant data type and at some point the data is sent on-the-wire [...]

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Tech Guy on September 8th, 2009

What are Builtin\Administrators?
SQL Server creates a default NT Group login called Builtin\Administrators during installations.This login facilitates the following

All local NT administrators on the server to have default sysadmin privileges 
Automatic access to system tables
Automatic access to user tables

How security is compromised?
SQL Server security is compromised as follows

Vulnerable to changes by [...]

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Tech Guy on September 8th, 2009

This article describes the resolution for the issue that is faced while processing the OLAP cube in SQL Analysis Services. While processing the dimension in the cube sometimes the dimension gets hanged or it throws the error “– 2147221411: Process operation failed”.
Problem Summary
When you try to process the shared dimension of a OLAP cube [...]

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Connection of Sybase to .Net and SSRS

The connection of Sybase to SSRS was made in the project using the Sybase ASE ODBC driver. This driver needs to be installed.
After installation, the next step is to create an ODBC data source for Sybase. This can be done by adding a new system data source under [...]

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Tech Guy on September 7th, 2009

The article lists the facts that are incurred while connecting IBM DB2 with DotNet applications and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRC) tool.
Connection of DB2 to .Net and SSRS

The connection of DB2 to SSRS was made in the project using the Microsoft ODBC driver. This driver is a default driver and is visible in the [...]

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