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Microsoft Azure Government
I’m sure you are aware of Microsoft Azure, but are you aware there is special version of Azure for U.S. governments?Microsoft Azure Government is a cloud computing service for federal, state, local and...
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Annual Business Intelligence Survey
This is a reminder to compete the annual Business Intelligence product survey conducted by BARC Research. I’ve been participating in the survey for several years (as far as I know, as long as it has...
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Still Time To Register For Internals for Query Tuning
There is still time to register for the fantastic class Internals for Query Tuning Class with Kalen Delaney. This fantastic three day class will teach what you need to know in order to better...
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SQL Server 2016: What Time Is It?
Today I found that SQL 2016 introduces a function to help alleviate the issues we have when it comes to finding the current time.The post SQL Server 2016: What Time Is It? appeared first on Thomas...
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The Key to Keys at the North Texas SQL Server User Group – 17 March
I’m visiting Dallas this week to speak at the North Texas SQL Server User Group this Thursday. I’ll be speaking about keys: primary keys, surrogate keys, clustered keys, GUIDs, SEQUENCEs, alternate...
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Index Cannot Be Reorganized…
Working diligently as any good DBA might, you have established maintenance routines for each of the SQL Servers under your purview.As a part of this maintenance you have scripted solutions to...
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SQL Server 2016 RC0–Management Studio install option has disappeared
If you are trying to install SQL Server 2016 RC0 – which I’m sure you are all doing looking at the new features that are coming our way soon and wondering how all this cloud stuff passed you by? You...
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Time Management–Leadership
To many times data professionals flounder in what some call a pool of uncertainty. The countless tasks, tickets, projects, and emails that may flow in without prioritizing will leave individuals...
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Catch The Enterprise Scripting Workshop in CA, LA, or NY this year!
Sean and I have put together our bazillion (read: like 30 combined) years of SQL Server DBA-ing into one big, shiny pre-conference session that’s coming at you in multiple states of the union! The...
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What permissions do I need?
Ever wondered how to tell what permissions are required to run a statement or perform a task? Well, sometimes it can be a little confusing to be honest. Most of the time though it’s all there in front...
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Generating Fixed-Width Text Files In Excel With Power Query
While it’s fairly common to need to load fixed-width files using Power Query or Power Query (and there’s a nice walkthrough of how to do this here), occasionally you might want to use Power Query and...
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The Best of PASS Summit 2015
If you haven’t been to the PASS Summit in Seattle last year (like me :(), you might want to check out the recordings of Summit 2015, as they are now available on PASStv.Furthermore, PASS has selected...
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A journey to a movie recommender in U-SQL
I haven’t gotten to involved in the whole “Big Data” movement to much, I’ve kept an arms length watch and played around with a few of those technologies but never really jumped in and got down and...
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Overview of SSAS Tabular in DirectQuery Mode for SQL Server 2016
This post is part 1 of a 2-part series:Part 1: Overview of SSAS Tabular in DirectQuery Mode for SQL Server 2016 (you are here)Part 2: Translating DAX to SQL in SSAS DirectQuery Mode for SQL Server...
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How to: Move SQL Databases (User)
This is an article that I have been meaning to write for a while and I just got motivated writing it after reading Erik Darling‘s article Moving Databases with ALTER DATABASE. I wrote my rough draft in...
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Weekly Round-up 21st March 2016
Weekly Round-up 21st March 2016 Monday, 21 March 2016 05:55 Here are some of the more interesting links that I have found this week SQL ServerSQL Server 2016 RC1 has been released....
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TOP 1 killed my performance; Rob Farley helped me resurrect it.
tl;dr; There is no short version of this. It’s LONG. It’s interesting but you might want to skip it if you are in a hurry. If you have the time however, it’s a great walk through of tuning a query.I...
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Monitoring SSAS Multidimensional Non Empty Filtering Using Profiler, Part 1
Filtering out empty values is something that SSAS does a lot of during query execution, and it is also a common cause of performance problems. In this series of posts (similar to my series earlier this...
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Monday Morning SQL Break – March 21, 2016
Monday, Monday, Monday… let’s start with a wrap-up of last week’s blog and twitter activity. If you haven’t already, follow me on twitter (@StrateSQL). This is a good chance to catch up on data...
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The Best Database Administrator Jobs – How to Improve Your Salary, Part 2
Managing multiple database platforms, countless instances and new technologies? The nonstop stress is enough to make you wish you’d gone into landscaping instead of database administration. We’ve all...
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