... Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeography.IsValidExpensive()
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeography.ConstructGeographyFromUserInput(
GeoData g, Int32 srid)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeography.GeographyFromText(OpenGisType ... type,
SqlChars taggedText, Int32 srid)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeography.STGeomFromText(SqlChars
geometryTaggedText, Int32 srid)
at Microsoft.SqlServer.Types.SqlGeography.Parse(SqlString ...
Creating Proxies in SQLServer
SQL Server2008 allows creation of security principals at both the server- level and database-level that
can be used via proxy.
• At the server level, proxy logins...
... access to the SQL
Server2008 Analysis Services software. SQLServer2008 Analysis Services is
included with the Standard, Enterprise, and Developer editions of Microsoft
SQL Server2008. Time-based ... Data Mining with SQLServer Integration Services 439
Chapter 15 SQLServer Data Mining Architecture 475
Chapter 16 Programming SQLServer Data Mining 497
Chapter 17 Extending SQLServer Data Mining ... have supplemental materials that you can down-
load from
www.wiley.com/go/data mining SQL2008. As appropriate for the
chapter, the site contains SQLServer database backups, SQLServer Analysis
Services...
... SQLServer installer)
Operating System Windows Vista (any version)
Windows Server2008 Windows Server 2003 SP2
Windows XP SP 2
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Visual Studio 2008 If VS 2008 is installed on the same machine as the server or client tools, it must
be updated to SP1. It is not required to have VS 2008 installed ... needed archival data and what kind of server
installation strategy you will need to support it.
SQL Server2008 Installation Requirements
The official Microsoft SQLServer installation requirements...
... Davidson (aka Dr. SQL) and I co-present a
session at conferences on database design. I recommend his book
Pro SQLServer2008
Relational Database Design and Implementation
(Apress, 2008) .
Summary
Relational ... the
generic pattern
or
property bag
/
property
table pattern
, illustrated in Figure 3-15. In the
SQL Server 2000 Bible
, I called it the ‘‘dynamic/relational
pattern.’’
continued
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Nielsen ... parts (Widget and SuperWidget).
The first foreign key points to the material being built. The second foreign key points to the source
material.
Entity-Value Pairs Pattern
E
very couple of months, I...
... compatible with SQL2008 but
will not be enhanced to support the new 2008SQLServer features.
Chapter 39, ‘‘Configuring SQL Server, ’’ discusses SQLServer configuration in detail.
Server Configuration ... manage SQLServer2008 and SQLServer 2005
servers. It’s SMO-based, so some features may work with SQLServer 2000, but
it’s not guaranteed to be compatible.
A common misconception among new SQLServer ... Components (MDAC) is compatible with SQL2008 but will not
be enhanced to support the new 2008Server features.
Because SQLServer Native Client is a component of SQLServer 2008, it must be installed
separately...
... drive and then SQLServer can be navigated like the file
system.
There are four main directories under SQLSERVER: — SQL, SQLPolicy, SQLRegistration, and DataCol-
lection:
■ The SQL folder provides ... SQLServer2008.
You can browse the SQLSERVER file system just like a disk file system. Issuing the command
cd SQL
(or Set-Location SQL) and running the Get-ChildItem cmdlet returns the local server ... the SQLServer objects. The URN for the
HumanResources.Employee table in
AdventureWorks2008 on SQLTBWS\INST01 is as follows:
Server[ @Name=’SQLTBWS\INST01’]\Database[@Name=’AdventureWorks2008’]\
Table[@Name=’Employee’...
... regions
in the
@SQLStr. A little string manipulation to assemble the pivot statement and an sp_executesql
command completes the job:
DECLARE @SQLStr NVARCHAR(1024)
SELECT @SQLStr = COALESCE(@SQLStr + ... unfortunately, there’s nothing new with windowing and ranking in SQLServer2008.
All the examples in this chapter use the AdventureWorks2008 sample database.
The Over() clause
The OVER() clause creates ... was introduced in SQLServer 2005, and I had hoped it would be expanded for 2008.
Windowing and ranking hold so much potential, and there’s much more functionality in the ANSI SQL
specification,...
... sensitive
(e.g., payroll and credit card data), irrelevant, or confusing for the purpose of the view.
SQL Server supports column-level security, a nd it’s a powerful feature. The problem is that ad hoc ... understand the schema very well will often run into security errors. I recommend
implementing SQLServer column-level security, and then also using views to shield users from ever
encountering ... Securables’’).
I’ve seen databases that only use views for column-level security without any SQLServer enforced security.
This is woefully inadequate and will surely be penalized by any serious...
... develop server- side solutions; and SQLServer has a large
variety of technologies to choose from to develop server- side code — from
the mature T -SQL language to .NET assemblies hosted within SQL Server.
This ... and His Two Daughters 72
Performance
SQL Server2008 s full-text search engine performance is several orders of magnitude faster than
previous versions of SQL Server. However, you still might want ... programmer within and have fun. There’s a whole world of
developer possibilities with SQLServer 2005.
If SQLServer is the box, then Part IV is all about thinking inside the box,
and moving the...
... many-to-many reflexive relationship in the
Material
sample database (BillofMaterials.MaterialID to Material. MaterialID and
BillofMaterials.SourceMaterialID to Material. MaterialID).
■ Avoid inconsistent ... files using SQLServer Management Studio
(NAME = NewDB,
FILENAME = ‘e:\SQLData\NewDB.mdf’),
(NAME = NewDB2,
FILENAME = ‘f:\SQLData\NewDB2.ndf’)
LOG ON
(NAME = NewDBLog,
FILENAME = ‘g:\SQLLog\NewDBLog.ldf’),
(NAME ... undo.
Creating Tables
Like all relational databases, SQLServer is table-oriented. Once the database is created, the next step is
to create the tables. A SQLServer database may include up to 2,147,483,647...
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Part IV Developing with SQLServer
SQL Server log
SQL Server also maintains a series of log files. Each time SQLServer starts, it creates a new log file.
Six archived ... done since the beginning of
SQL Server, using
@@error to see the error status of the previous SQL
statement.
■ Try/catch was introduced in SQLServer 2008, bringing SQLServer into
the 21st century.
Legacy ... area, T -SQL has a sad history (almost as sad
as that joke), but it’s made significant progress with SQLServer 2005.
There are two distinctly different ways to code error handling with SQL Server:
■...
... synchronization capabilities between a server database and
SQL Server Compact 3.5 databases on devices
■ SQLServer change tracking: Available in SQLServer 2008, this provides a way to track
changes, ... Used to synchronize a SQLServer Compact 3.5 database with
other editions of SQL Server
■ Merge replication: Used to synchronize different editions of SQL Server, including SQL
Server Compact 3.5
While ... synchronization commands or using the synchronization adapter
builder.
■ SQLServer2008 data types: New data types in SQLServer2008 are supported.
■ Synchronization process tracing: Provides the...
... Connectivity
What’s New with Service Broker?
S
ervice Broker was introduced with much fanfare in SQLServer 2005. For SQLServer 2008, there are
a few slight enhancements: Conversations may now have an assigned ... and the Entity Framework is installed with Visual Studio
2008 SP1, which can be downloaded from the following location:
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-
9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en
Creating ... data source.
What determines whether a project should use LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entities/Entity Framework?
You should use LINQ to SQL when you want the following:
■ A rapid development cycle
■...
... between SQLServer and a CPU, you make that CPU available to SQL
Server, but it is not dedicated to SQL Server. Therefore, while a CPU can’t be forced to run SQL Server,
it can be segmented from SQL ... in
Microsoft SQLServer2008. These options have no effect. Do not use them in new development work,
as they may be removed in future SQLServer versions.
Dynamic memory
If SQLServer is set ... restarting the server,
use this option to enable SQLServer to immediately begin using the hot-add memory. This
is only available on SQLServer Enterprise Edition and can be used on 64-bit SQL Server...