APEX on top of SQL Server

Hello,
We have a custom developed J2EE Financials App sitting on SQL Server. New reports and forms are costly for
us from a development perspective. We are considering surfacing some of that data through APEX.
From what I've found generating reports through a synonym on a db link looks pretty good.
It looks to more complicated if we want to use Apex forms to manipulate the data in SQL Server.
As anyone tried this and do they have advice or experiences to share?
Thanks

I'd just suggest for performance, put the bulk of your queries on these tables in SQL Server views. If performance becomes a big issue, pull the tables into a materialised view or equivalent dealy in Oracle.

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[TopLink Info]: 2006.06.16 02:49:46.253--ServerSession(1679)--Thread(Thread[ApplicationServerThread-0,5,RequestThreadGroup])--TopLink, version: Oracle TopLink - 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.0.0) (Build 060118)
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AND ObjectName NOT LIKE '%#%' -- Any stored proc which creates a temp table within it Extended Event does capture this creation statement SQL as well , we dont need it though
AND T.Time_Stamp_EE >= @Prev_Insertion_time --Ryelugu 03/05/2015 - Performance Optimize
AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM [dbo].[MN_DDLSchema_Changes_log] MN
WHERE MN.[ServerName] = T.server_instance_name -- Ryelugu Server Name needes to be added on to to xml ( Events in session )
AND MN.[DbName] = T.DbName
AND MN.[Event_Name] = T.EventName
AND MN.[ObjectName]= T.ObjectName
AND MN.[EE_Time_Stamp] = T.Time_Stamp_EE
AND MN.[SQL_TEXT] =T.SqlText -- Ryelugu 03/05/2015 This is a comparision Metric as well , But needs to decide on
-- Peformance Factor here , Will take advise from Lance if comparision on varchar(max) is a vital idea
--SELECT GETDATE()
--PRINT '4'
--RETURN
SELECT
top 100
[EE_Time_Stamp]
,[ServerName]
,[DbName]
,[Event_Name]
,[ObjectName]
,[UserName]
,[SQL_TEXT]
,[client_app_name]
,[Created_Date]
,[ClientHostName]
FROM
[dbo].[MN_DDLSchema_Changes_log]
ORDER BY [EE_Time_Stamp] desc
-- select getdate()
-- ** DELETE EVENTS after logging into Physical table
-- NEED TO Identify if this @XML can be updated into physical system table such that previously loaded events are left untoched
-- SET @XML.modify('delete /event/class/.[@timestamp="2015-03-06T13:01:19.020Z"]')
-- SELECT @XML
SELECT GETDATE() GETDATE_5
END
GO
Rajkumar Yelugu

@@Version : ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - 11.0.5058.0 (X64)
   May 14 2014 18:34:29
   Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
   Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: ) (Hypervisor)
(1 row(s) affected)
Compatibility level is set to 110 .
One of the limitation states - XML columns with a depth of more than 128 nested nodes
How do i verify this ? Thanks .
Rajkumar Yelugu

March's TechNet Wiki SQL Server Guru Winners announced!!

The results for March'sTechNet
Guru competition have been posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2014/04/17/the-microsoft-technet-guru-awards-march-2014.aspx <- results page!
Congratulations to all our new Gurus for March!
We will be interviewing some of the winners and highlighting their achievements, as the month unfolds.
Below is a summary of the medal winners, the last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is shown in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
BizTalk Technical Guru - March 2014
Tomasso Groenendijk
Using BAM in the ESB Toolkit
Ed Price: "Incredibly valuable and very well written! Great article!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A custom BAM dashboard - LOVE it! Another great ESB addition to the Wiki."
TGN: "Nice one, I really liked this one, explains how to use the ESB together with BAM, great work and well explained!"
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Windows Azure BizTalk Services: Pulling Messages from a Service Bus Queue
Ed Price: "This is amazingly well written with beautiful images and formatting. Great job!"
TGN: "Azure, Azure, Azure! Nice one Steef-Jan, people are waiting on articles like this. Good job, and thanks for the contribution!"
Mandi Ohlinger: "A very informative How To. Screen shots are very helpful."
boatseller
Detecting a Missing Message
Mandi Ohlinger: "GREAT addition to the Wiki and to any user who suspects missing messages. The BizTalk support team can use this orchestration. "
Ed Price: "I love the visuals on the orchestration implementation! Important topic!"
TGN: "Nice article, great to see a solution to detect missing files."
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - March 2014
Eihab Isaac
FIM 2010 R2 BHOLD: Non-BHOLD Approval Process
Ed Price: "Very thorough explanations! Great formatting and colors on the tables and code snippets! And the images are also helpful!"
PG: "Nice article, we need more of these."
Micah Rowland
FIM:How To Use PowerShell to View a Metaverse Object's Connector's Attribututes
Side By Side
PG: "Nice article, nice format. well written"
Ed Price: "Good code snippet and use of code comments. Could use more explanations and maybe breaking the code into sections with more information about each section. Good job!"
Giriraj Singh
FIM:Delete Bulk Expected Rule Entries Using FIM OTB features
Ed Price: "Good procedural steps! It could benefit from more explanations, a grammar pass, and some images. Good article!"
PG: "Short but nice article."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Use PowerShell to find Fields using a Managed Metadata TermSet
Jinchun Chen: "Good article."
Ed Price: "Although this is Matt's shorter article this month, this is an incredibly important topic, and the code is perfect! As Dan says in the comments: "Matthew Yarlett has done it again!! IMHO when it comes to SharePoint powershell
you are second to none." This is a great article!"
Rahul A Shinde
SharePoint 2013: Deploy and apply theme to SharePoint sites with PowerShell
Ed Price: "Fantastic explanations and use of images!"
Matthew Yarlett
SharePoint: Testing Email Alerts in UAT and DEV Environments
Jinchun Chen: "Nice! It can be used for troubleshooting SharePoint Incoming/Outgoing related issues too."
Ed Price: "Wow! This article is astonishingly thorough!"
Small Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Centering Text in Graphics Window
RZ: "Clearly written explanation with nice graphics to go with it."
Ed Price: "I love having the three options like this! And the images really bring it to life! The links to the shared programs (with their source code) really help if you want to dig deeper and learn more!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 23589
- Controls.GetTextBoxText() Returns CR+LF as Newline from Multi-Line Text Box in Local but CR in Remote
RZ: "Bugs are always hard to track down, especially the unknown unknowns :( Good job on hunting it down!"
Ed Price: "This acts as a valuable KB article! Great addition to the troubleshooting library!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Expression
RZ: "Good introduction to expressions"
Ed Price: "Short and sweet intro to Expressions. Thanks, Nonki!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - March 2014
Michael Amadi
A Practical Example of How to Apply Power Query Data
Transformations on Structured and Unstructured Datasets
NN: "This is a terrific tutorial on Power Pivot with very helpful images. Great article"
Ed Price: "This is a fantastic combination of Power Query and Power Pivot... a valuable contribution!"
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014
chandra sekhar pathivada
managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan
Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative
tasks, but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors."
NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing"
DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based
on age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. "
Shanky
Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
Server restart
NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding
tempdb recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!"
System Center Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage VM pinning within a Hyper-V cluster by
combining the use of System Center VMM and Orchestrator
Ed Price: "Mr. X, this is another incredibly thorough article! Fantastic job!"
Idan Vexler
Create Custom XML For OSD In SCCM
Ed Price: "Love the list of requirements! Very thorough in dividing each step!"
Omar Lopez (loplim)
SCOM 2012 - Create Alert / Monitor Based on Windows event ( Administrator login
alert )
Ed Price: "Good use of images. Could use a TOC with sections and more descriptions. Good job!"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - March 2014
Jayakumaur (JK)
Understanding IDENTITY in SQL Server
Ed Price: "Wow, what a competitive month! This article is amazing, with thorough explanations in each section!"
Richard Mueller: "A good tutorial on an important feature of T-SQL."
Durval Ramos
Paging a Query with SQL Server
Ed Price: "Durval's article is fantastically thorough and easy to follow!"
Richard Mueller: "Very useful concept when populating controls from a query, which should improve performance. I like the images. Well done."
Naomi N
T-SQL: Split String with a Twist
Richard Mueller: "Very intersting problem with an original solution."
Ed Price: "A very powerful and well-articulated solution from Naomi!"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - March 2014
The Thinker
Exporting and Importing Wireless Settings Using Netsh in VB.NET
SB: "Code could be formatted better, task is something I can see as potentially useful although I would prefer a bit more narrative description and comments in the code explaining why it was done a certain
way, although the code is simple enough to work through."
MR: "Great tool code!"
Ed Price: "This is a good contribution! One way to improve an article like this is to explain the parts of the code more in depth, as a way to introduce each snippet (and maybe dividing a block up more). Then you could link to the Gallery
iteam if the reader wants to access the entire snippet at once. The images are also very helpful! Great job!"
Richard Mueller: "Perhaps this code should be in the gallery. There should be more explanation in a Wiki."
Visual C# Technical Guru - March 2014
João Sousa
ASP.NET WebAPI 2 - Stream Windows Azure blobs
NN: "Very nice tutorial and also can be downloaded from the Gallery"
Ed Price: "I love to see this ASP.NET content! Each step is very clear! Great code formatting!"
Raghunathan S
C# Code Compilation at Runtime from C# Windows Forms Application
Ed Price: "Good descriptions and code formatting. It could benefit from a TOC. Great article!"
NN: "This looks like an interesting article, but too short and the code is hard to read in its present format"
Raghunathan S
Creating a Simple logging class with System.Diagnostics namespace in C#
NN: "Good article, but too short"
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good article. It could benefit from a TOC and more descriptions around what the code is doing and why. Good job!"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - March 2014
Matthew Yarlett
Wiki: Basic Image Formatting using Pixlr
BL: "This deserves credit as much for the idea as for the actual article - many authors contribute from computers that may not have authoring tools installed and this simple online solution has the potential to iprove
quality a lot."
Richard Mueller: "Excellent explanation of a useful tool for Wiki authors. A "See Also" section would be useful."
PG: "Nice artilce, well done, nice layout. Great!"
NN: "Good article"
Durval Ramos
VBA & VBS Portal
NN: "Very good new portal about VBA. Introduction may be improved a bit"
Richard Mueller: "A great collection of Wiki articles. Excellent use of recommended features in a Wiki article."
PG: "Nice article good start!"
BL: "Another great initial compilation of relevant resources. Would be very interested in seeing how this develop over time."
Mr X
Wiki: System Center Orchestrator Portal
NN: "Good new portal. Missing See Also section with links to other portals"
Richard Mueller: "A good collection of articles. This Portal adds a lot to the TechNet Wiki."
PG: "Nice and neat article? Suggestion to add more references to related articles and platforms on Wiki."
BL: "great initial compilation of SC Orchestrator resources. Hoping this will grow over time as the product has a few other active Wiki contributors."
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - March 2014
Isham Mohamed
Pin Windows Phone 8 app to start screen on first launch.
Peter Laker: "A very useful and informative article! Also, Nice use of fonts and images."
Ed Price: "Good explanation, but it could benefit from a TOC and tweaked formatting. Good job!"
Ibraheem Osama Mohamed
Coming from an asp.net background, let’s build our first Windows Store Application
Ed Price: "Great job on the formatting, explanations, and code snippets!"
Peter Laker: "Excellent primer for those moving from asp.net and all beginners."
mcosmin
The Performance Analyzer Paradox
Ed Price: "This is a good philosophical article, but it would be richer with examples and visuals. "
Peter Laker: "Nice story, good reading, very worthy entry and gratefully received!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - March 2014
Magnus (MM8)
WPF/MVVM: Handling Changes To Dependency Properties In The View
Ed Price: "Nice, thorough topic with good explanations! Could benefit from code formatting. Great article!"
Peter Laker: "A nice primer on a fundamental aspect of xaml. Great layout, images, descriptions, etc."
dev hedgehog
Trick To Use StaticResource With Path
Peter Laker: "A very useful and commonly pondered subject. Thanks for a great contribution!"
Ed Price: "This is a great solution with good code formatting and code comments!"
Windows Server Technical Guru - March 2014
Mr X
How to manage your DC/DNS servers with dynamic IPs in Windows Azure
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "on-promise" to "on-premise.""
JH: "really detailed, very complete with scripts added"
Richard Mueller: "This might be the best article I have judged. Code formatting could be improved, but otherwise an outstanding contribution."
Mr X
How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM
JH: "excellent, concise, good topic"
Richard Mueller: "Excellent documentation of the use of very new tools to manage IP addresses."
JM: "Another excellent article, thanks much for your contributions!"
Mahdi Tehrani
Customize DST time zone configuration across the forest with GPO
JM: "This is an excellent article, however you need to change all instances of the term "Daylight Time Saving" to "Daylight Savings Time.""
JH: "good info, great illustrations and writing"
Richard Mueller: "Original work for an tricky problem. I think the script should run as a Startup script instead of a Logon script on the clients. A "See Also" section and links would help."
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/23837.technet-guru-contributions-for-april-2014.aspx
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Congrats to Chandra and Shanky:
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - March 2014
chandra sekhar pathivada
managing database backups across all the instances without maintenance plan
Samuel Lester: "Chandra, outstanding contribution and information! Your SSIS package handles many of the shortcomings of Maintenance Plans. MPs were originally created to assist DBAs with the more common administrative tasks,
but as the scale continues to grow across enterprise environments, we're all forced to write our own enhanced versions such as this. Thanks for the addition and please do add to the Gallery if you haven't yet."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. It is suggested to add error outputs in the package to handler unexpected errors."
NN: "Good article. The SSIS solution can use a bit more explanation. Also See Also section is missing"
DRC: "This is good article, The only this which can be corrected is : ==> This can be achieved using “maintenance Cleanup Task • Maintenance Plan has a control flow item “maintenance Cleanup Task” to delete the old backup files based on
age of the backup, but it creates the problem when it deletes the full database backups based on n no.of days leaving all the dependent intermediate differential and transaction logs which are useless. "
Shanky
Understanding Logging in Tempdb.Is Tempdb re-created or rebuilt after SQL
Server restart
NN: "Very good article with an interesting analysis"
DRC: "This article is good and provides lots of detailed information along with sample query and screenshot. The screenshot of few need few more details (files of model are missing) This article can be broken down into 2 1) understanding tempdb
recreation 2) Logging in Tempdb 1) understanding tempdb recreation:- This is not concluded properly. The article doesnt talk about the physical files which are recreated even if we delete the tempdb files "
Samuel Lester: "Shanky, very nice article on the internals of TempDB! It was tough judging this month as both articles were very informative contributions!"
Ed Price, Power BI & SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it!

SQL Server TechNet Guru News: October Winners Announced

All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
For a full list of winners,
see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
in 06 Steps
Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
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SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
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How to Improve the Performance of SQL Server and/or the hardware it resides on?

There's a particular stored procedure I call from my ASP.NET 4.0 Web Forms app that generates the data for a report. Using SQL Server Management Studio, I did some benchmarking today and found some interesting results:
FYI SQL Server Express 2014 and the same DB reside on both computers involved with the test:
My laptop is a 3 year old i7 computer with 8GB of RAM. It's fine but one would no longer consider it a "speed demon" compared to what's available today. The query consistently took 30 - 33 seconds.
My client's server has an Intel Xeon 5670 Processor and 12GB of RAM. That seems like pretty good specs. However, the query consistently took between 120 - 135 seconds to complete ... about 4 times what my laptop did!
I was very surprised by how slow the server was. Considering that it's also set to host IIS to run my web app, this is a major concern for me.
If you were in my shoes, what would be the top 3 - 5 things you'd recommend looking at on the server and/or SQL Server to try to boost its performance?
Robert

What else runs on the server besides IIS and SQL ? Is it used for other things except the database and IIS ?
Is IIS causing a lot of I/O or CPU usage ?
Is there a max limit set for memory usage on SQL Server ? There SHOULD be and since you're using IIS too you need to keep more memory free for that too.
How is the memory pressure (check PLE counter) and post results.
SELECT [cntr_value] FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters WHERE [object_name] LIKE '%Buffer Manager%' AND [counter_name] = 'Page life expectancy'
Check the error log and the event viewer maybe something bad there.
Check the indexes for fragmenation, see if the statistics are up to date (and enable trace flag 2371 if you have large tables > 1 million rows)
Is there an antivirus present on the server ? Do you have SQL processes/services/directories as exceptions ?
There are lot of unknowns, you should run at least profiler and post results to see what goes on while you're having slow responses.
"If there's nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe!"

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