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SQL Server Katmai Setup and Upgrade
SQL Server Katmai Setup and Upgrade
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SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Custom Form Authentication Sample not working I am trying to get custom authentication to work,because the default is simply not applicable to our environment,and have tried two ways, but am stopped by errors out of my control:
1. I got the Anonymous authentication in James Wu's blog to work, and have been trying to use that as a starting point...
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Getting started with SQL Server
Getting started with SQL Server
help needed for the issue related to concurrency and deadlock hi. in our banking application required highly data concurrency and data security We executed following two commands ROW VERSIONING-BASED ISOLATION LEVEL 1) ALTER DATABASE ACUTE SET READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT ON;2) ALTER DATABASE ACUTE SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION ON;but still we face the deadlock...
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SQL Server Integration Services
SQL Server Integration Services
Trouble with programatically setting output column property for lookup Hi!
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Error:
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SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server Database Engine
SQL Server 2008 bug with outer join and index Hello! We found a problem when migrating from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008. SQL-statements like
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Transact-SQL
Transact-SQL
Query help needed I have this query and when i am tyring to run it, says Must declare the variable '@prm_location_id'.
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SQL Server Analysis Services
SQL Server Analysis Services
ABC Classification - SET and Calculated member using TopPercent I have 3 Dimensions DA, DB, DC, a measure called QTY and a time frame that includes multiple years.
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I like to create an ABC classification that allows me to tag all combinations of DA.DB (so the Qty for DA in DB) as within top 80%, top 15% or top 5%. Also Qty should only be summed up over the las...
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SQL Server Setup and Upgrade
SQL Server Setup and Upgrade
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