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Guest Post: Identifying and handling blocked processes in SQL Server
Author Bio: Priyanka Chouhan is a technical writer in Stellar Data Recovery with 5 years of experience and has written several articles on SQL server & SharePoint. In her spare time she loves...
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The 9 Best Study Tips For 70-461 Certification
You can do this! Pass exam 70-461.It may seem intimidating, but you can pass Exam 70-461 Querying SQL Server. All it takes is a bit of planning and basic study tips.AsapScience explains in less than...
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Could not Register Service Principal Name
Have you ever seen the error below in your SQL Server log shortly after startup? You’ll actually see two of them and you can see the difference between them in the screen shot, but here is the...
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Tutorial: Data Science with SQL Server R Services
You may have heard that R and the big-data RevoScaleR package have been integrated with with SQL Server 2016 as SQL Server R Services. If you've been wanting to try out R with SQL Server but haven't...
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Restoring CDC enabled databases
Performing database and transaction log backups (and restores) are the meat and veg of a DBA’s responsibilities and if you are a seasoned professional I am sure you will have performed those operations...
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Big Data Still Requires Humans To Make Meaningful Connections
This is great article as many of us think that technology is everything. No matter the rich technology we have, still human interventaion is needed for meaningfull connections. “Perhaps it’s because we...
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Open Live Writer for Windows Live Writer
There has been issues with Windows Live Writer recently mailn it is not able to connect to the blogger account. After searching i found this thread.Windows live writer wont connect to bloggerIt says,...
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01 Business Intelligence Trends for 2016
BI analysts, industry players predict the rise of self-service, Big Data analytics, real-time data in the coming year. These are the trends for next year. Evolution of Self-Service BI More Advanced,...
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#0366 – SQL Server – SSMS – Simulating a TCP/IP connection on the same...
Most development environments that I have worked in have a developer edition of Microsoft SQL Server on the local machine of the developer. Hence, both the client (SSMS) and the database server are...
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Performance tuning backup and restore operations
The standard backup strategy seems to always include backups running at midnight, hoping that they complete before anyone starts using the applications. There is value in performing maintenance on...
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Use Compression to Combine Data Quality and Performance
We’ve been using the wrong data types for all the wrong reasons. DBAs, developers, data architects, etc. have all been told to keep data as narrow as possible, using the smallest data type to get the...
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What is the current database context?
Every now and again it can be very helpful to know what the current database context is when you are writing T-SQL code. It’s actually pretty simple. Use DB_Name() and/or DB_ID(). You can use them...
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Monday Morning SQL Break – December 21, 2015
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly 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 technology...
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Two New Books: “The Definitive Guide To DAX” And “’M’ Is For Data Monkey”
I’m not going to pretend that this blog post is a properly impartial review – I know the authors of both of these books to varying degrees – but I thought it was worth writing a few words on two new...
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Incrementing SQL Sequences
Sequences were first introduced in SQL Server 2012 and are a way to improve performance in situations that would have traditionally been implemented using the column based identity property. One of the...
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Reflections and Looking Forward
Time is slowly ticking toward 0:00 on the clock. As I look around I couldn’t help but reflect back on the game – the game being 2015. Did I give it my all? Did I leave everything out on the court, and...
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Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2016 ebook (Preview Edition)
I’m pleased to report that what is probably one of the first books on Microsoft SQL Server 2016 has been released, or at least the official 3 chapter preview of the book has been released by Microsoft...
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Advent of Code
If you want your skills to be sharp, you practice. If you want to get yourself to actually do practice, you call it a “challenge”. This is what the Advent of Code is.Now let me be perfectly clear...
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Advent of Code – Day 3
Continuing with the language-independent code challenge on Advent of Code – Day 3, I’m tasked with figuring out how well a drunken elf can guide Santa to houses. Since his instructions had Santa...
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Advent of Code – Day 4
Day 4 of the Advent of Code has us mining for data in MD5 hashes, which is out of the comfort zone for a SQL DBA to say the least.Some would say it’s a poor use for SQL Server, and I’d have to agree....
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