MS SQL Server is the software created by Microsoft. It includes a database engine and a number of features that help with database development, maintenance, and various activities such as reporting or master data management.
These features include SQL Server Integration Services, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, and other components such as Master Data Management or Data Quality Services.
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Correct table indexing in SQL Server is a base for good database performance during querying. You need to understand how SQL Server stores data into tables/indexes if you want to create appropriate sql indexes. It is also important to know how to approach these data correctly during querying. How Does SQL Server Organize Data Physically?… Read More »
This article will tell you about creating ER diagrams in SQL Server management studio. ER diagrams (entity relationship diagrams) describe static structure of database tables. Just like when building a house, the construction master needs the project documents, database specialists also need their ERD to build the database on strong foundation. ERD is part of… Read More »
SQL Error “Login failed for user <user name>. The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection” is quite common. The problem is that SQL Server cannot identify user name. This is how the error message looks like. What are the Most Common Reasons? Incorrect login or authentication type (Windows vs. SQL) Login… Read More »
What I have for you here today is a different kind of stuff. We will take a look at what should BI developer working on Microsoft technologies be able to do. I put up together a list of knowledge and abilities which I consider important for this job. I gave each skill rating (1-10) according… Read More »
Import of Excel sheet or csv file into SQL Server is a quite common task. You can find a guide on how to do it below. Let’s have an excel file containing data on companies: Steplist – Import Excel to SQL Database Example 1) Data import… Read More »
When working with database objects, we may sometimes get into a situation when we want to change property of an object. For example change of data type in column of a table via table design in SQL Server management studio. If there is data in the table, SQL server should display an error message if… Read More »
This article should give you guide on how to perform Google analytics data import to database/database storage without need of programming. Why should we want something like that? Maybe because we need to create our own reports or combine Google analytics data with data from other source systems – for example internal factory systems. This… Read More »
This article is mainly for beginners getting to know SQL Server management studio. It is tool used by you as a user to communicate with SQL Server database engine from which you want to extract information. This is so called SQL Client application. It uses user interface to simply help mediate database commands. In factories,… Read More »
We now have well-prepared simple report after the 5th part of the series (Configuring parameter/filter in SSRS). This article is focused on report deployment in SSRS and covers how to get report on server so that other users can take a look at it. We will do a little configuration of the project and then… Read More »
In the last article we prepared a simple report returning all rows from SQL Server dataset (Part 4 – Creating report SSRS). It displays sales data in form of a simple table. We made a promise not to make the report too complicated but we still want to do one important thing. Report returning the… Read More »