SQL Server Magazine January 2001

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Data Mining
Explore the Microsoft data-mining architecture and data-mining algorithms -- including decision trees and cluster analysis -- and the Analysis Services Time Dimension.
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[Focus]

Data Mining in SQL Server 2000

Learn about the basics of data mining, Microsoft's data-mining architecture, and how it all fits into SQL Server 2000.

What Time Is It?

Use Analysis Services' and OLAP Services' Time dimension and MDX time-aware functions to slice and dice your data by time periods.




[Features]

The Zen of Recursion

Use SQL Server to recursively traverse hierarchies in your database.

Upgrade Your E-Performance

Adding a little redundancy to your e-commerce database can yield big performance gains.

XML Updategrams

SQL Server 2000's new XML for SQL Web Release supports updategrams, which let you use XML documents to update your databases.




[Lab Reports]

Database Scanner 4.0.1

Lock down your SQL Server 7.0 and 6.x systems with Internet Security Systems' security-scanning tool.




[SQL Server Savvy]

Questions, Answers, and Tips

Learn how to find tables that don't have indexes, how SQL Server joins on columns of different data types, and more.




[Editorial]

The Route to Scalability

Scale-out technology meets high-end scalability needs, but scaling up is simple and adequate for most companies.




[Reader to Reader]

Readers' Tips and Tricks

Readers revisit November 2000's stored procedure to generate a job schedule report.




[SQL Server Q&A]

Answers from Microsoft

Richard Waymire answers readers' SQL Server questions about query optimizer behavior, DBCC reports, and a COM error.




[SQL Seven]

What's New in T-SQL

Check out Michael Otey's picks for the seven most useful T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2000.




[SQL Server/Office Integration]

Securing SQL Server Tables

In this second article in a security series, Rick Dobson shows you how to set up SQL Server account security through Access projects.




[Inside SQL Server]

Profiler's Blackbox Feature

Learn how to use event tracing with SQL Server 2000's improved blackbox feature to find the cause of a server crash.




[Web Dev]

SQL Server Profiler and Web Apps

Use SQL Server Profiler to find out how efficiently your Web application executes code in SQL Server.




[Mastering Analysis]

Custom Rollups

Analysis Services' custom rollups feature lets you build custom aggregation formulas to solve complex business problems.




[T-SQL Black Belt]

Manipulating Hierarchies with UDFs

Itzik Ben-Gan demonstrates how to use user-defined functions (UDFs) in hierarchical environments and how powerful UDFs can be for enhancing hierarchical data-manipulation capabilities.




[News Analysis]

Microsoft Releases SQL Server CE

The new SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition offers small-size portability, familiar tools, and replication features.

Microsoft Sends Oracle a Cease-and-Desist Order

Despite a Microsoft cease-and-desist order enjoining Oracle from misrepresenting SQL Server's capabilities, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison continues to publicly debunk SQL Server's benchmarking results.




[XML Q&A]

XML Q&A

Rich Rollman answers readers' questions about using XML to populate a nonbrowser-based application, using ADO with XML, and finding XML books for beginners.



 

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