By Louise Lahm, on February 15th, 2012%
Exactly when Microsoft changed the setting, I could not understand exactly – when reinstalling a named SQL Server 2008 R2 Express instance was the effect on each case:
You try to connect from a client using SQL Server (native) to the client to the server and receives the error message:
Connection fail:
SQLState: 08001
SQL Server ERROR: 17
{Microsoft} {ODBC SQL . . . → Read More: SQL 2008 Hosting :: Why I Cant Connect to SQL 2008 R2?
By Jose Sharp, on January 20th, 2012%
This post discuss about configuring the AdventureWorks Analysis Services Database in SQL Server 2008 R2. You can download the sample databases from here. By default when you install the setup you would not see the analysis services database, you need to do some configurations to get it appear in analysis services database.
To deploy the analysis services . . . → Read More: SQL Server 2008 R2 Hosting :: Chart Reports in SQL Server 2008 R2 reporting services
By Louise Lahm, on January 6th, 2012%
A stored procedure is a group of sql statements that has been created and stored in the database. Stored procedure will accept input parameters so that a single procedure can be used over the network by several clients using different input data. Stored procedure will reduce network traffic and increase the performance. If we modify stored . . . → Read More: SQL 2008 Hosting :: Stored Procedure in SQL Server and the Advantages
By Jose Sharp, on December 2nd, 2011%
1. Login to your Dynamic Dedicated Server through Remote Desktop.
2. Open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. This is found under the Start Menu, All Programs, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Management Studio.
3. When prompted to login use Windows Authentication. Make sure the Server Name is the name of your Dynamic Dedicated Server. Click on connect.
4. Once . . . → Read More: SQL 2008 Hosting :: How to Add Users to MSSQL Using SQL Management Studio
By Jose Sharp, on November 23rd, 2011%
So, yesterday I was trying to resolve one issue that led to another, pretty much a daily occurrence right? This SQL issue was littering the application logs every minute with Event ID 18456, as you can see in the screenshot.
Opening up the individual error showed the following (note my spray paint skills): Login failed for user . . . → Read More: SQL 2008 Hosting :: Cleaning up the Error Logs – SQL Error 18456
By Louise Lahm, on November 1st, 2011%
Recently I had faced very interesting situation. Due to some reason we were not able to login into the production server for one of client. The reason for the same was that server was very busy, we had to login into the system and bring server to normal situation. When all the attempts failed, I decided . . . → Read More: SQL 2008 Hosting :: How to Fix – An error occurred while obtaining the dedicated administrator connection (DAC) port.
By Jose Sharp, on October 11th, 2011%
By Jose Sharp, on September 27th, 2011%
PIVOT is a new T-SQL operator introduced in SQL Server 2008 which can be used to rotate rows into columns and can create a crosstab query. You can specify the PIVOT operator in FROM clause of your query.
Using PIVOT
Specify the desired values that you want to see in SELECT statement and FROM clause contains the PIVOT . . . → Read More: SQL 2008 Hosting :: PIVOT & UNPIVOT Operators in SQL Server 2008
By Louise Lahm, on September 19th, 2011%
One of the biggest failure points I see with third-party DotNetNuke modules, including some of my first released modules were failures due to the lack of support for ObjectQualifier or DatabaseOwner values within the SqlDataProvider files. Although the process to add support for these two tokens is easy to add, it is very hard for those . . . → Read More: SQL 2008 Hosting :: How to Create DotNetNuke SqlDataProvider Files Using SSMS
By Jose Sharp, on August 12th, 2011%