Imagine you need a report with data from an OLAP sales cube, and have to include data from a table of the relational data source, or from an external database.

With a linked server you can construct a MDX query in the SQLServer instance where you have the cube, joining with an external database to complete the data with information from tables of the relational database..

With SQL Server, when we forget or we lose the password of the DBA user 'sa', and we are the administrators of the database, we have a little problem.

It's easy to forget this password because probably we have our own user administrator and don't use to log in with the sa account. We also could have inherited the administration of a SQL Server database, with any documentation about the sa account or we coul'd have installed a database and deleted the login with admin privileges without knowing the password of the sa user.

For all this situations there is a better solution than reinstalling the database..

If you have to change the type of a key column on SQL Server, and the new column type has to be integer, and even identity, you can do it by using some criteria in order to get the rows ordered (PK= index clustered= order by in physical disk by this column)..

We will change the type of the PK column of a table in a sample with 2 typical invoice tables master-detail where the key columns are nchar. 'invheader.invoiceid' is the primary key of the master table and 'invlines.lineid' is the primary key of the detail table..

We could need to access to MySQL from SQL Server.

An easy way to do it is creating a linked server that uses an ODBC connection..

Living longer, living better? 

Following analysis is made with R and the Google Vis library for plotting the interactive maps. 
It's equally important to measure the longer living as well as its quality..

SEMrush is one of the best tools of SEM and SEO for marketing online professionals.

If you are a professional of online marketing, either offering services of SEM and SEO positioning to third parties, or belong to the marketing department of a company that invests in Adwords, I am convinced that after trying it you can't stop using it..

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The outliers, or extreme values, are a usual topic when analyzing data, regardless its data source. Here I present a didactic and visual approach on treating with them. R code is available to download.

The broken external links from our web is a major problem because, besides subtracting useful publication, depending on the importance of the external source to supplement the informations of our post, penalize post, and our domain if we have a lot of face to the search engines like Google.
As broken links without significant and is an easy thing to detect for any robot or spider, few SEO tools not report any broken links on our website when making our typical SEO site audit. In this post we will explain how to use the Semrush tool to detect and correct these broken links.

Let's see how SEMrush, one of the tools SEO indispensable, can help us improve our SEO positioning allowing us to track the keywords which we are working and which are not and, more importantly, find out if those words are running our competition and whether they are highly sought words. So, with this competition analysis, we evaluate by what keywords we bet on our strategy of organic positioning, which is better rule, and how we should adapt our publications and organize your linking strategy, internal and external, to improve Any word positioning on search engines.