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What books or online resource would you recommend for learning how to do advanced charts and dashboard design with Reporting Services?
While not specific to SSRS The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is the place to start.
I am very partial to Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data. I also found, having read that book, that COLOURLovers was a great place to get very nice palettes of colo(u)rs which are part of the recommendation in the book.
Personally, I'm not sure SSRS is quite right for dashboard applications (I have worked on a implementation of SSRS) though SSAS certainly is great from the reporting/warehouse side IMHO, but the SSRS story doesn't seem to fit... just my anecdotal opinon.
It's a big topic so good luck!
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For dashboards I can recommend Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business
SSRS might not be the best approach for a dashboard, though it offers great reporting functionality.
You may want to take a look at Microsoft PerformancePoint 2007. It can make dashboards and widgets out of SSRS, SQL, Excel etc data and display it visually on Sharepoint.
I have read most of the SSRS 2008 books on the market and would highly recommend two - they both have decent amounts of content around charts and gauges
Applied Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services By Teo Lachev
http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Microsoft-Server-Reporting-Services/dp/0976635313/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233159590&sr=8-1
Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services by Brian Larson
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft%C2%AE-Server-Reporting-Services-Microsoft/dp/0071548084/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233159590&sr=8-2
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I will be given a job offer by an IT company, and was asked to "look at" PL/SQL since I didn't have much experience with databases. I have an extensive background in C++ among other programming languages, so I don't think this will pose too much of a challenge. However, I don't have access to any Oracle database at home, so I was wondering if there is a "toy" database and terminal online where I can practice.
Register yourself an account at APEX ONLINE you have all of the tools for free available online, or simple download Oracle Database 10g Express Edition
I would suggest a higher priority would be to learn the Relational model of data, then SQL.
If you don't start with a solid understanding of the RM, you're more likely to tend to use procedural solutions where a set-based approach is better.
Go and get the Express version of the database server Here
As for learning PL/SQL start
here
You just download sql developer tool by using this link..do practice well.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/sql-developer/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen
There is another site where you can practice PL/SQL online:
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/oracle_terminal_online.php
Oracle have some VM images with Oracle Linux ready-to-run:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/linux/downloads/vm-for-hol-1896500.html (64bits VM)
To learn PL/SQL language you just need a text editor like atom or sublime text. You can also install MySQL.
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Before going into production, our client demands actual numbers of how many users our web application can handle.
We have all kinds of features implemented including asset management (file uploads/downloads), documents import/export, various statistics, web-services etc.
I guess we need tool which could emulate users form submission because documents import/export as far as I noticed is the slowest part of an app because of parsing and generation.
Which tool (or set of tools) could do this?
Application details:
XHTML/jQuery
Coldfusion 8
SQL Server 2008
Windows Server 2008
I like jMeter - free software and does the job quite well.
Few intro screencasts:
http://www.fosscasts.com/screencasts/3-Load-Testing-with-Apache-JMeter
http://vimeo.com/10164982
HPs Open Source HTTPerf I like. Just setup the URLS you want to test and let it rip. use a couple of machines to emulate load. You could even parse the output into a DB and do some number crunching.
Also, think about doing HTTPerf runs with profiling on the server side to see what lags and what doesnt. A nice touch is to let a user go on the app, and record all POST/GET requests and use them as a replay set for typical user interactions.
Also, if you are thinking about UX, use firebug or something to check JS imports are being done asynchronously instead of one-at-a-time. Have a ganders at Stackoverflow question 310583/loading-javascript-dependencies-on-demand
http://loadimpact.com/
WebLoad: Professional and open
source load testing from
CFMeetup
Visual Studio Ultimate edition has great load/stress testing tools, although the ultimate edition can be a bit expensive.
m using Full version of JBlitz Professional 5.0 ..
it's very good
There are few analytical performance tool out in market(not free) one i came through and works well is New Relic. If you are looking only to test the api then http://locust.io/ is good one and free too.
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I have a strong database background but very little practical experience with ms sql server.
I want to learn the tools, the architecture, profiling and tuning.
Besides browsing around for little bits and pieces of information, I'm actually looking for larger guides. Books, training, series of articles, etc.
How do you recommend I start?
The best way to learn is by participating in newsgroups and forums. In the beginning you can just lurk but try to get information in...After a while you will notice that you know to answer some questions...start participating
get some good sql server books, if you can't afford books take a look at Good SQL Articles To Read If You Can't Afford Books there is some really good stuff here
Check out all the SQL Server whitepapers available
Listen to sql podcasts sqldownunder has 43 of them
Follow sql people on twitter and see what they link to, a list of people to follow on twitter can be found here sql directory
I also interviewed a bunch of SQL Server legends like Ken Henderson, Kalen Delaney and more, you can find a list here: All the interviews I did with SQL legends
Books and training is only one aspect.
Practical work is worth it's weight in gold. If you can get near a production environment with a live database and have access to a DBA willing to take you under his/her wing, take full use of the opportunity
I use Expert SQL Server 2005 Development by Adam Machanic. Online tutorials are great too. Especially ones that have video.
When I first started out with MSSQL I found the SQL2000 book from the Wrox "Professional" range to be a very good starting point, it might be worth you looking for if they have an updated edition. Everything else I've picked up frmo official documentation, other websites, and just kicking things to see what they do.
Start reading books. there are number of author who work hard to create the basic very clearly, and then if you feel that's not enough Internet is the best of all and has abundant material.
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We have grown from a small time of 2-3 developers to about 30 developers very quickly. We supposedly never needed Source Control, or Db Monitoring or Schema diagrams.
Now we see more and more terrible code being moved to the Production. Is there an off the shelf product for oracle that will help manage version control and deployment management from Test, to UAT, to Prod?
Also nice to have would be Schema diagrams, Documentation Tools, some amount of performance profiling capabilities. But primarily would like to a tool to manage code source control and Migration for oracle scripts, DDL, DMLs etc.
I srongly recommend getting Oracle'e SQL Developer. This integrates with Subversion, provides an overview of the entire database, including procedures, schema changes and so on. This will make your life easier.
have you considered SVN for your source control and management of scripts, DDLs and etc? Our ORACLE DBAs use it here and they swear by it.
I know I am very late to this party, however, I wanted to draw your attention to our product, dbMaestro TeamWork for Oracle, which provides exactly the functionality required here. We offer the functionality equivalent to source control tools for Oracle artifacts. Many companies use SCM by proxy (as suggested above by northpole, re using SVN), our solution is "in touch' with the database as required by Reuben on the original post. To read more please visit our site at http://www.dbmaestro.com or e-mail us at info#go-esi.com.
Disclosure - My company represents this product in the US.
TOAD (by Quest Software) is fantastic and includes most of what you want including source control.
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Where I can download sample database which can be used for data warehouse creation? It should't be sample from Microsoft (Northwind etc.).
EDIT: Sorry for not clarifying my question. At my university we have class where we must create some data warehouse and since Northwind is so popular over net then professor told us not to use this database. We will use for this SQL Server 2008 but using Northwind is forbidden.
This is a free online database data generator:
www.generatedata.com
You can design a table structure and let the script generate rows to populate it.
It's not exactly what you need, but I think it can help.
Whatever happened to NOT Northwind?
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CommunityCallToActionNOTNorthwind.aspx
There's also SQL Data Generator from Redgate:
http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Data_Generator/index.htm
I have been working with the Open Flights dataset this semester for BI. This Flight Data could work for future projects, along with anything Kimball or Red Gate related. I enjoyed learning the difference between methodologies on this page, Data Warehouse Architecture.
OpenFlights.org
Additionally, it was can be downloaded on this Visualizing Data webpage, under datasets, Global Flight Network Data.
Learn more about OpenFlights Data at DataHub.
Also, the data was in dat files and I imported it with delimited columns in Excel. After that it wasn't that difficult to use the data. Here was a good tutorial on importing these data files using a comma delimiter in Excel.
Also, I found this dataset page as well that had a few other useful data examples of Enterprise Data Models on Databaseanswers.org.
Let me know if you find any other useful datasets learning examples.
Hey Just use Adventure works SR4
the best way to learn is to use AdventureWorks database. There is a relational version of it which is to demo the source data and there is star schema version of it, built from a relational one for data warehousing / OLTP system.
Download it from here - many Microsoft books on SQL Server / SSAS use this as example. A friend of mine used it to learn about data warehousing and get his first BI job.
http://msftdbprodsamples.codeplex.com/