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I Don’t Want To Create Indexes Because It Will Slow Down My Application
“I Don’t Want To Create Indexes Because It Will Slow Down My Application.”I hear that argument all the time from software developers at clients when I tell them that we need to create indexes. This is...
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Biml Online beta – Biml without the software
Earlier this week, Varigence, the creators of Biml, BimlScript and Mist released the newest tool for managing your Business Intelligence & data solution : BimlOnlineAnyone who has been working with...
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SQL Server Backup Terminology Part 1: Media Sets & Backup Sets
When backing up a database or transaction log, SQL Server needs to know two basic things:What information the backup should containWhere it’s going to be writtenMany options exist to control the...
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You’re Doing it Wrong: Generalizations about Generalizations
I have a couple of presentations where I describe how generalized data modeling can offer both benefits and unacceptable costs. In my Data Modeling Contentious Issues presentation, the one where we...
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Recommended reading from mrdenny for November 20, 2015
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week.Keep Your Data Lake from Turning Into a Swamp with SemanticsWhat Data Science Means to...
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SSDT DevPack - Highlight expensive queries
When developing stored procedures in SSDT it is important to know when you have written a query that is potentially slow or has a high IO or CPU cost but there is no real way other than examining the...
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Using multiple log files
The transaction log is made up of one or more files that are used sequentially. So in other words if you have multiple log files then new log information will only be written within one of those files...
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SQL 2016 and R – Working With SQL Data
In the last few posts I’ve gone over installing the components you need to run R in a SQL 2016 instance as well as some simple scripts that played with one of the data sets that’s included with R....
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Datatypes or Data Types?
I conducted a Twitter poll last week about how to spell DATATYPE (or is it DATA TYPEs?). Many compound words start out as two separate words, then get hyphenated, then concatenated to a new word. We...
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Using the ScriptDom without losing comments
The ScriptDom is cool, it lets you parse T-SQL, play around with the AST (tree of statements) and then generate T-SQL again (probably in a different format etc). This is really cool but if you...
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SQL Saturday #469 – Brasilia
E aí pessoal !!!O conteúdo da palesta sobre backup parcial e restauração parcial e online está disponível.O Slide está disponível para download ou visualização abaixoO link para o download dos scripts...
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Quickly deploying procedure/functions from SSDT (Bypass Publish)
SSDT is great but one thing that is not so great is the performance of the publish. I am not complaining, I understand it does a lot and is well worth the wait when publishing however, when you are...
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Why Should Data Professionals Automate?
Take a minute and look around you. Automation is all around you; whether you see it or not processes are automated on all levels of life.One thing that I’ve noticed among professionals is that...
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Tuesday Morning SQL Break – November 24, 2015
It’s Tuesday time for this week’s one day late blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL). This is a good chance to catch up on data platform...
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SQL Saturday Chicago 2016 Registration Open!
Registration is now open for Chicago’s 6th SQL Saturday! It will be taking place at DeVry University’s Addison Campus on March 5 2016. Please join us!If you’re not familiar with SQL Saturday, it’s a...
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SQL Server 2005 End of Support and Business Intelligence
How does the official end of support for SQL Server 2005 mean for companies using Reporting Services, Analysis Services and other BI features? I was recently interviewed for a CIO Magazine article by...
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Using Parameter Tables To Control Data Refresh In Power BI
The use of parameter tables is a well-known technique in Power Query. It involves using a table from the current Excel workbook to hold various parameter values that are read using a Power Query query,...
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Changing case of T-SQL Keywords
Bert likes his T-SQL keywords in UPPERCASE, Ernie likes his in lowercase which causes some internal struggle as it is actually one person "Mr Bert Ernie" anyway I digress, whether you are working by...
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Women in technology
Earlier this week a friend of mine (Lynn Swayze (Hall) (b/t)) posted this great article on women in technology. It’s a great read and I highly recommend it. In fact, go read it right now. I’ll...
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Inline Nonclustered Indexes
One of the new features that I just recently learned about in SQL Server 2014 is the ability to create nonclustered indexes on a table inline with the creation of the table. This is handy in a couple...
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