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Collection Set Failure Troubleshooting
My shop uses a lot of monitoring. In fact, just about every monitoring feature built into SQL Server we have tried, are using, or have plans to use in the near future. Some of the monitoring overlaps...
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Don't Use BETWEEN with DATETIME
I'm not going to try to convince you in English not to use BETWEEN with dates. Run the code below to see why it's not a good idea. (Yes, I know there are new date types - this post isn't for you.)--...
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First foray into presenting
It’s been a while since I’ve posted as the run up to Xmas last year and this January have been particularly busy. February doesn’t seem to be going to be any quieter but at least I’m being kept on my...
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How TO: Create SQL Central Management Server and Server Group
One of the cool things that was added a few years back was the Central Management Servers feature. It was introduced in the Standard and Enterprise editions of SQL Server 2008. This feature helps DBAs...
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#0372 – SQL Server -SSIS – VSTA, Could not load file or assembly...
We use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for all of our data movement and upgrades. Recently, when running a particular SSIS package, one of our new servers threw a strange error:“There was an...
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TempDB Excessive Memory Usage Example
I see TempDB using more memory than I feel it should and found a way to resolve it. Previously I dove into technical details and questioning what I saw in my post TempDB Memory Leak? which is great...
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Running code on the startup of SQL Server
Every now and again you need to run code when your instance starts up. For example you might want to check if the SQL Agent is running.Startup ProceduresThe first thing you have to do is make sure that...
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Analysing Power BI DMV Queries In Power BI Desktop
Experienced Analysis Services and Power Pivot developers will know all the interesting things you can learn from DMV queries. For example, in this blog post Kasper de Jonge shows how to use a DMV to...
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Follow Up to State of the Union of Data Modeling 2016–Questions for You
I had so many more questions I wanted to talk about during my recent State of the Union of Data Modeling 2016, but one hour goes by quickly when you have tools, industry, professionals, standards and...
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Monday Morning SQL Break – February 1, 2016
It’s Monday and time fora round-up of last week’s blog and twitter activity – and even an on-time post for all of this. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL). This is a good chance...
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Microsoft Azure Stack in Preview!
Microsoft made available the first technical preview of its new Microsoft Azure Stack offering today. It was announced last week. Azure Stack brings the cloud model of computing to every datacenter –...
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Availability Group Architecture – Adding a Second Site
Last time, I discussed the simplest Availability Group architecture, with only a single site. In this post I will expand upon the same architecture, adding in a second site to achieve more than just...
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How to Install Microsoft R Server for Windows
Microsoft R Server, or Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as it is formally known for now, is basically a platform for advanced analytics designed to tackle big data statistics, predictive modeling, and...
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Fixing a storage pool that doesn’t have an read-write server
Recently I was working on a clients file server cluster and while doing some troubleshooting with Microsoft Support one of the clustered disks wouldn’t respond correctly. Now this file server cluster...
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You’re Probably Taking Sort Order For Granted Somewhere
As many people will point out, you can’t depend on the order of results without using the ORDER BY clause. So it’s easy to say “Simple! Don’t write code that expects unsorted data to be sorted”. But...
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Blogger questions: What if someone else wrote about the same subject?
I have a moderately popular blog. In part because I syndicate but largely (in my opinion) because I write a lot of posts (twice a week for > 3 years). Over 340 of them in fact. Because of this a...
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Scaling Azure SQL Database
One of the advantages Azure SQL Database has over on-prem SQL Server is the ease in which it can scale. I’ll discuss the various options for horizontal scaling, vertical scaling, and other similar...
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Its been a busy start to the year
Its been a busy start to the year at gethynellis.com. I have been involved in a Big Data training courses in Alexandria - a suberb of DC, followed by the same course running again in London a week...
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New Ways To Concatenate Text In Excel 2016 With CONCAT() And TEXTJOIN()
I don’t normally blog about Excel topics outside of Power Query and Power Pivot, but I think anyone who has ever done any serious work in Excel has found how difficult it is to concatenate more than...
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