... install SQLServer 2000 along side 6.5 or 7.0
- SQLServer 6.5 and 7.0 can be upgraded directly to SQLServer 2000
- SQLServer 2000 can be installed as the default instance along side SQLServer ... an important one. SQLServer 2000 uses two accounts: one for SQLServer and
one for the SQLServer Agent. The SQLServer account is used by the SQL database engine
which provides all the database ... Program Files Directory Data Files Directory*
Default
Instance
\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\ Mssql\Binn
\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\ MSSQL$InstanceName\Binn
Named
Instance
\Program...
... Management Server
Central Management Servers are new in SQLServer 2008. They provide you with a central location to
execute multiserver queries and evaluate policies against defined server groups. ... add a few other servers to the Production group.
Importing Registered Servers and Groups
If you have groups and servers registered already, you can export your list of registered servers and
groups ... New Server Group dialog box, as shown in Figure 3-33. Enter PROD as the group
name and enter a group description, such as Production SQLServer Group. Click OK to close the dialog
box and create...
... OLAP. In SQLServer 2000, the
feature was renamed SQLServer Analysis Services (SSAS).
OLAP capabilities were underappreciated in SQLServer 7 and 2000. Between the perception that
SQL Server ... Databases 202
Processing 204
What Processing Does for Us 205
How to Initiate Processing from BIDS 208
Processing from SQLServer Management Studio 214
Processing via XMLA 215
Processing ... game-changer was to enter the OLAP server market themselves.
SQL Server Analysis Services
In 1996, Microsoft acquired OLAP technology from Panorama Software. It shipped with SQLServer 7 as
OLAP Services...
... current SQLServer 2000 installations and you are evaluating migration to SQLServer 2005, you
should move directly to SQLServer 2008.
Consider one more point when evaluating upgrading from SQLServer ... Servers: No, you can’t install SQLServer 2008 on
Windows Server 2008 Core. You can install it on Windows Server 2003 SP2 or later, or Windows Server
2008. SQLServer Standard Edition can also ... set at the server level in the DataDir property (Figure 3-11). You
can access the property dialog box by right-clicking on the server in SQLServer Management Studio and
selecting Properties....
... N'SOFTWARE\Microsof
t\MSSQLServer\SQLServerAgent',
N'DatabaseMailProfile',
N'REG_SZ',
N'DBMailProfile'
PRINT '***********Please Restart SQLServer Agent!********
****' ...
Creating Alerts
A SQLServer Agent alert is an automatic response to a predefined event. You can configure SQLServer
Agent alerts to fire in response to SQLServer events, SQLServer performance ... VIOLATIONS
Figure 5-4. Alert System page of the SQLServer Agent Properties dialog box
Select OK to close the SQLServer Agent Properties dialog box. You must restart SQLServer Agent
before the new settings...
... action on a contained environment and capture the events that occur using
SQL Server Profiler. By using SQLServer Profiler, you can capture the exact chain of events Microsoft uses to
perform ... conditions are true for each of your servers:
x Databases have sufficient free space.
x Transaction logs were backed up.
x SQLServer Agent is running.
x All SQLServer Agent jobs have notification ... Contains all of the properties for the Policy-
Based Management configuration. These are the same properties you saw in the
SQL Server Management Studio Policy Management Properties dialog box...
... solution.
SQL Server Management Studio
Management Studio is the primary tool for DBAs working with Analysis Services. If the last time you
looked at SQLServer was the 2000 version, SQLServer ... Data Mining, DataShape (for
hierarchical record sets), Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server. Selecting a provider will load the appropriate
UI for the connection information.
Creating a data source ... 5-3. Selecting a provider for a new data source
You can see in Figure 5-3 that in addition to the SQL .NET providers, there’s also an Oracle .NET
provider. Under OLE DB we have providers for Jet...
... the Products hierarchy and make sure you can navigate down categories,
subcategories, and products.
27. Save the project; we’ll keep using it.
Attribute Properties
Let’s take a look at the properties ...
Organization dimension.
Product: A Product dimension will have attribute types for brands, SKUs, and product categories.
You can also add attributes for product start and end dates.
Promotion: If you ... attribute and then view the Properties pane
(right-click and then select Properties). Let’s work down the Properties pane and look at some of the
more significant properties. Here’s the list:...
... MICROSOFT SQLSERVER BEST PRACTICE POLICIES
SQL Server Password Expiration Password Expiration Enabled ILoginOptions
SQL Server Password Policy Password Policy Enforced ILoginOptions
SQL Server ... Login
Prior to SQLServer 2008, by default, anyone who has administrative access to the server also has
administrative access to SQL Server. This administrative access is given through a SQLServer ...
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=116335
SQL Server Max
Worker Threads
for 32-bit SQL
Server 2000
Checks the max worker threads server
option for potentially incorrect settings of
an instance of SQLServer 2000 that...
... 204
SQL Server Login Mode policy, 198, 224, 231
SQL Server 2000
SQL Server Management Objects see SMO, 91
File Growth for SQLServer 2000 policy, 220
SQL Server Management Studio
SQL Server ... prerequisites, 169
SQL Server 32-/64-bit Affinity Mask Overlap
policies, 222, 231
SQL Server Performance web site, 208
SQL Server Profiler, 205
SQL Server Affinity Mask policy, 222, 231
SQL Server service ...
how #SQLHelp works, 210
SQL Server Agent Is Running condition, 158–
160
SQLSaturday training event, 209
SQLServer.Management.DFM namespace, 92
SQL Server Agent Is Running policy, 160
SQLServer.Management.sdk.sfc...
... Studio (Visual Studio)
using SQL and Multidimensional
Expressions (MDX).
SSRS provides built-in access to
OLAP cubes and authoring for SQL
Server data sets.
SQL Server Analysis
Services (SSAS)
Cubes ... have built-in access to
online analytical processing (OLAP)
cubes and SQLServer data.
Access is most frequently accom-
plished through pivot tables.
SQL Server Reporting
Services (SSRS)
Reports ... successful BI projects start with an understanding of the key metrics that drive the
business and work through a proven design and implementation approach.
• Cost-effective BI projects focus...
... Join
Production.Product On
Sales.SalesOrderDetail.ProductID = Production.Product.ProductID Inner Join
Production.ProductSubcategory On
Production.Product.ProductSubcategoryID =
Production.ProductSubcategory.ProductSubcategoryID ...
Production.ProductSubcategory.ProductSubcategoryID Inner Join
Production.ProductCategory On
Production.ProductSubcategory.ProductCategoryID =
Production.ProductCategory.ProductCategoryID ... but you just need to process the cubes every night. In that case, you can schedule cube
processing by using the SQLServer Agent.
The SQLServer Agent is a feature of SQLServer that can schedule...