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Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key data warehousing features and functions of SQL Server. 

 

In this screencast, Eric uses a typical DW query along with Microsoft Excel to create reports.

 

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Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. 

 

When should you manually rewrite queries to capitalize on aggregates rather than rely on SQL Server's Query Optimizer, to generate more e...

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. 

 

This technique helps you to accelerate query performance for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, by taking advantage of indexed views.

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Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. 

Speed up query performance on very large fact tables. Partitioning and indexing now complement each other.

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Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. 

Simplify queries that require grouping or aggregation. Using Grouping Sets reduces repetitive scans of the same data and improves performance. ...

What can I do if I am using SQL Server 2000 or 2005, and I want to do a more efficient join between a date dimension and a large fact table?

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through creation of a workaround.

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Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. 

Automatically leverage parallel processing when joining dimensions to the fact table.  Each outer row gets a separate thread on a nested l...

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008.

 

Make the most of your available hardware resources through intelligent parallel processing against partitioned tables. SQL Server&nbs...

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008.

Get more performance out of your star schema data model. Automatic star join query optimization dramatically improves performance by efficiently fi...

Eric Hanson, principal program manager for SQL Server data warehousing, walks through several of the key features and functions of SQL Server 2008. Use Change Data Capture to easily capture changes from your source database and accelerate ETL to the data warehouse.
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