Best Practices Analyzer Modification

I work for a software development company and was wondering if it would be possible to create custom "Best Practices" for the Analyzer. For example if we were developing a database and wanted to check to make sure all new development followed the same pr
actices we could use our own custom "Best Practice" modules to check.
Is there anything like that that can be created for use with the Analyzer? An SDK or anything? Is that something that is planned for the future?
Thanks
The ability to create custom rules and extend BPA has certainly been talked
about and may be something that you can look forward to in a future version.
HTH
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"Earl G Elliott III" <Earl G Elliott III@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> I work for a software development company and was wondering if it would be
possible to create custom "Best Practices" for the Analyzer. For example if
we were developing a database and wanted to check to make sure all new
development followed the same practices we could use our own custom "Best
Practice" modules to check.
> Is there anything like that that can be created for use with the Analyzer?
An SDK or anything? Is that something that is planned for the future?
> Thanks
sql

best practice analyzer "copy report" but no "print report" -more info

I reinstalled the software and I also installed the software on another machine. The problem still exists. One machine is W2K sever sp4 and the other is XP Pro sp1
Unfortunately it is a documentation bug. Print functionality was removed
from BPA (available in the beta) but was missed from the documentation. :-(
The two possible ways to achieve print are:
1) use "copy". After clicking on it you should be able to paste in a variety
of formats, word, excel, etc.
2) use SQL Server Reporting Services. This also has many formats (pdf,
excel, html) you can use to generate & print reports.
- Christian
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"Dan" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I reinstalled the software and I also installed the software on another
machine. The problem still exists. One machine is W2K sever sp4 and the
other is XP Pro sp1

Best license program

I have a small company and i make online ERP software in ASP.NET for small
companies. Companies with one server en a maximum of 10 concurrent users.
What SQL server license should i advice for these companies? And how much
does it costs?
I've tried to understand the documents on the microsoft site but i did not
find an satisfying answer.
Thanks in advance.
RonaldIf your database won't be bigger than 2 GB, you can use MSDE which is free.
Otherwise the best is to use Standard Edition with per seat licensing if
your client don't have more than 25 users (not concurrent users, you need a
license for everyone who uses the server), or Standard Edition with a
processor license if there are more than 25 users.
--
Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP
"Sandeman" <ilighters@.zeelandnet.nl> wrote in message
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>I have a small company and i make online ERP software in ASP.NET for small
> companies. Companies with one server en a maximum of 10 concurrent users.
> What SQL server license should i advice for these companies? And how much
> does it costs?
> I've tried to understand the documents on the microsoft site but i did not
> find an satisfying answer.
> Thanks in advance.
> Ronald
>

Best license program

I have a small company and i make online ERP software in ASP.NET for small
companies. Companies with one server en a maximum of 10 concurrent users.
What SQL server license should i advice for these companies? And how much
does it costs?
I've tried to understand the documents on the microsoft site but i did not
find an satisfying answer.
Thanks in advance.
Ronald
If your database won't be bigger than 2 GB, you can use MSDE which is free.
Otherwise the best is to use Standard Edition with per seat licensing if
your client don't have more than 25 users (not concurrent users, you need a
license for everyone who uses the server), or Standard Edition with a
processor license if there are more than 25 users.
Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP
"Sandeman" <ilighters@.zeelandnet.nl> wrote in message
news:OAiA2bYlEHA.3452@.TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I have a small company and i make online ERP software in ASP.NET for small
> companies. Companies with one server en a maximum of 10 concurrent users.
> What SQL server license should i advice for these companies? And how much
> does it costs?
> I've tried to understand the documents on the microsoft site but i did not
> find an satisfying answer.
> Thanks in advance.
> Ronald
>

Benchmark Software for Microsoft SQL Server

Hi,
Anybody know any TCP-C benchmarking software for Microsoft SQL Server?
Thanks,
Adriano.Adriano,
TPC-C is an on-line transaction processing benchmark.
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/default.asp
--
Dinesh.
SQL Server FAQ at
http://www.tkdinesh.com
"Adriano Galle Dal Prá" <dalpra@.cwb.palm.com.br> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Anybody know any TCP-C benchmarking software for Microsoft SQL Server?
> Thanks,
> Adriano.
>
>|||find the MS Enterprise Data Center 1.5 page
the 08-Data Services OLTP load generator is essentially a
simplified tpc-c kit modified for more generic testing
if you need full tpc-c testing assistance, check with
www.perftuning.com
>--Original Message--
>Hi,
>Anybody know any TCP-C benchmarking software for
Microsoft SQL Server?
>Thanks,
>Adriano.
>
>.
>

being able to stop parallelism in a C++ Program calling SQL Server

Hi All,

I have written ETL software that runs on SQL Server. We are running it for the first time on a 4cpu (2 x dual core) machine on sql server 2005.

One of the things this software does is perform a 'select * from tablename' to validate that the tables passed to it as parameters exist. This has worked fine on previous releases and on single cpu machines because what the optimiser decides to do is to return just the first page of data and then fetch more. I guess it even works in 2005 standard edition.

However, 2005 enterprise edition allows parallelism. And what the optimiser is deciding to do with such a query is to parallelise it and fetch all rows and then give the result back to the program. So, instead of seeing a fraction of a second to return the first page of data we are seeing up to 90 seconds and the database goes and fetches 15M rows in parallel.

Obviously, what we would like to do is to somehow tell the optimiser that this set of programs should not perform any parallel queries. Or, we would like to turn parallelism off on the specific tables we are dealing with for the period of running these ETL programs....they have no need of parallel processing at the database level for virtually all the calls that are performed.

Would someone please be so kind as to advise us if we can do something like pass a parameter to ODBC to stop parallelism or if we can issue commands against specific tables to stop parallelism for a period and then turn it back on?

Thanks in Advance.

Peter Nolan

www.peternolan.com

select * from tablename OPTION (MAXDOP 1)

That should do it. MAXDOP stands for Max Degree of Parallelism, and allows you to limit the number of parallel execution threads for a query. Setting it to 1 essentially disables parallelism for that query.
|||

Hi David,

thanks very much for that....I did not know the syntax of how to do this at query level....

We turned off parallelism at the server level and it turns out the optimiser will still perform a table scan....we have many logical tables in on physical table and even when we query the underlying table with a select * from with a where clause it is scanning the table and taking about 40 seconds to do so....even when we say 'top 1' to make it get the first row and put an index on the field that logically partitions the table.

It looks like we will have to introduce partitioning so that the optimiser can know to scan just the partition in question. We also had a feature we planned to introduce which was to turn off table validation....if an etl subsystem is in production there is little need to validate tables....we never put it in...and now there seems like a need to do so.

Again, thanks for the tip. Much appreciated.

Peter

www.peternolan.com

|||

Hi All,

one of our guys here came up with a better idea....

What the tool is doing is validating the existence of the taget table/views passed to the program....so in the case of a typo a specific message saying the table/view not found is issued.

However the optimiser is thinking the program really wants all the rows.

One of the guys here suggested if the constraint where 1 = 0 is added to the select * then all optimisers will be smart enough to know no rows will be returned yet the database will still check that the table/view exists.

So we will also implement this test and that will make sure all programs test for existence of a table quickly.

If we feel industrious one day we can actually ask ODBC if the table exists.

One reason why I like the select * from tablename as a test for existence of a table over just asking ODBC is that it forces the preparation of the plan and if the view has been invalidated then it will also be caught at this stage of processing where ODBC will return a positive answer to does the view exist...

Again, thanks for your responses...it is much appreciated...

Just by the way....we installed the new performance dashboards just released and it was these that managed to show us the statement that was in a wait state and how we detected the problem...so if you have not installed the new performance dashboards yet....you might want to do so...

Best Regards

Peter