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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.