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		<title>Reporting Services 2008 R2: Geospatial Visualization – Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the continuation of my previous article: Reporting Services 2008 R2: Geospatial Visualization &#8211; Part I. Part I discussed the&#160; main characteristics related to the Map Report Item, Data sources for spatial data, how to create a map report using shapefiles, and finally add analytical data to it.&#160; Our goal in the part is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reporting Services 2008 R2: Geospatial Visualization – Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geospatial Visualization is one of the key new features of SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services.SQL Server provided geospatial data with SQL Server 2008 and you may have noticed (or perhaps used) the two geospatial data types in SQL Server 2008 : geometry and geography. This support is further extended with Reporting Services 2008 R2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Column Sets with Sparse Columns</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the cost of storage is comparatively low, we still need to consider saving space by using various techniques such as compression and archiving.  When you think of space savings the first thing you think of is the file system however space savings can be applied to the databases as well.  When we create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transparent Data Encryption in SQL Server 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Database Administrator, security is one of the most important areas to consider when it comes to protecting the databases that you support. We use various mechanisms and technologies to secure our data and databases such as firewalls, certificates, and data encryption. Having said that although we have secured our environment, questions will always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Comparison with Data Dude</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have already written two articles regarding Data Dude (aka Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals); one published as Schema Comparison with Data Dude and other published as Test Data Generation with Data Dude. This is my third article regarding Data Dude, and in this article I will illustrate the way of doing &#8220;Data Comparison&#8221; with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schema Comparison with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most DBAs work with different environments such as production, quality assurance and development where the same database schema exists. One of the biggest issues we have been facing while maintaining the same database schema in various environments is making sure that the objects exist in the databases are the same in all environments and if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SSIS Usage of Checkpoint File</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are an ETL application developer or administrator, one problem you may have faced is rerunning the entire ETL application in the event of failure. Rerunning the application from the point of failure is often not possible due to many reasons, but mainly due to the difficulty in implementing logging and maintaining each step of the application and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Index related DMVs and DMFs &#8211; sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Examining statistics of indexes is useful&#160;for&#160;optimizing&#160;the performance of queries. Statistics help us determine the usage and worth of indexes. There are many different methods to determine their usability; , which gives core statistics of indexes. The first article in the index-related DMVs and DMFs series discussed the output of sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats, while this, the second of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Index related DMVs and DMFs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SQL Server 2005 introduced three new index-related dynamic management views and functions. All these views and functions are information rich and allowing to analysis of indexes. This A look at avg_page_space_used_in_percent This output column gives a clear indication of internal fragmentation of a particular level of an index. Internal fragmentation occurs when the number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Isolation Levels in SQL Server 2005</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dinesh Priyankara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isolation Levels Isolation levels come into play when you need to isolate a resource for a transaction and protect that resource from other transactions. The protection is done by obtaining locks. What locks need to be set and how it has to be established for the transaction is determined by SQL Server referring to the [...]]]></description>
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