January 21, 2004
Herts Chen describes the testing he did to prove his hypotheses about cube partitioning and improving Analysis Services performance.
SQL Server Magazine
February 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 these techniques for proper cube partitioning.
SQL Server Magazine
February 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 the last article of a three-part series.
SQL Server Magazine
August 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 customizing the replication's steps.
SQL Server Magazine
July 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.
SQL Server Magazine
May 2002
Are performance-sapping bottlenecks weighing down your snapshot replication environment? Here's how to optimize snapshot replication for large databases.
SQL Server Magazine
May 2002
When you want to copy large data sets to multiple target servers, snapshot replication beats transactional replication hands down.
SQL Server Magazine
April 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.
SQL Server Magazine
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