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Herts Chen is a data architect for the City of Portland, Oregon’s Corporate GIS group. He is responsible for integrating and modeling city and regional data, and he has a PhD.

Email: herts@ci.portland.or.us

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Cube-Partitioning Tests

By Herts Chen, 01/21/2004

Herts Chen describes the testing he did to prove his hypotheses about cube partitioning and improving Analysis Services performance.

Improving Analysis Services Query Performance

By Herts Chen, 01/20/2004

Analysis Services is a valuable business intelligence (BI) tool, but when queries become complex, Analysis Services can bog down. Get your queries running efficiently by using ...

Automatic Pilot

By Herts Chen, 01/22/2003

Manually customizing replication agent job steps speeds up snapshot replication, but it's impractical for a large-scale environment. Learn how to automate this customization in ...

Manual Transmission

By Herts Chen, 07/24/2002

Trying to copy large databases from one server to multiple remote servers can throw your snapshot replication into low gear. But you can rev up the process by manually ...

Stop, Drop, and Save

By Herts Chen, 07/11/2002

Here’s how the drop and save works when you add the customized drop step to a snapshot replication’s Distribution Agent job.

Bottleneck Blues

By Herts Chen, 04/24/2002

Are performance-sapping bottlenecks weighing down your snapshot replication environment? Here's how to optimize snapshot replication for large databases.

Why Not Transactional Replication?

By Herts Chen, 04/24/2002

When you want to copy large data sets to multiple target servers, snapshot replication beats transactional replication hands down.

Custom Scripting in SQL Server 2000

By Herts Chen, 04/23/2002

If your scripts are simple, static, and stable, you can use SQL Server 2000's custom scripting feature to perform custom tasks for snapshot replication.