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SQL Server 2016: What’s the best new feature?
With SQL 2016 around the corner, and my blog without a post this year, I thought I would write about some of the new features. However, I’m not sure which feature I like the most to talk about! So I’m...
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Why You’re Wrong: The Data Professional’s Guide To Contentious Issues
I’m here to put an end to the debates. Today we will examine the data professional's guide to contentious issues.The post Why You’re Wrong: The Data Professional’s Guide To Contentious Issues appeared...
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Stopping your SQL Server Job
Maintenance in General is a necessity for SQL Server. No different than changing the oil in your car or going to the Doctor for the annual exam. There is going to be times when you are going to need...
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Field and Record vs. Column and Table
Erik Darling wrote me last week with this idea:There’s a sort of recurring company chat joke about people who flip out over rows and columns vs. fields and records, etc. And of course, there’s this...
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Why my primary test environment is case sensitive.
Me: I think I’m going create a new playground instance.Myself: Make sure you use a case sensitive (CS) collation when you install it!I: You mean a collation that forces us to pay attention to the case...
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MongoDB – Insert,Update,Upsert and Delete Examples – CRUD
In MongoDB we have to use either insert() or save() method to add the document to a collectionInsert Single document> db.employee.insert( { "employee_id":1101, "name":"Prashanth",...
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Does your User Group need a free WordPress hosting platform?
Is your user group currently hosting their website that isn’t giving you the features that you need?Is your user group currently paying to much (or anything) for your website?Would your user group to...
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Are You Programming In The Database?
Typically, T-SQL is not the best platform for programming (understatement). If you have many procedures that call other procedures, that’s a signal that you might be programming in the database.Find...
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How to Create a Demo/Test Environment for Azure Data Catalog
Azure Data Catalog is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering in Azure, part of the Cortana Intelligence Suite, for registering metadata about data sources. Check this post for an overview of Azure...
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Setting up powershell remote sessions
Hey guys, differing from usual this is a quick post on setting up powershell remote sessions. I know you can remotely connect to powershell sessions using the Server Manager that comes with Windows...
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SQL Server 2016 Business Intelligence and Dataviz Masterclass
Join me in Edinburgh on 10th June for a one day Masterclass in SQL Server 2016 Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation! You’ll get takeaway notes and experience hands-on labs that focus on:Power...
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MongoDB : How to get Top, Bottom,Middle and Range of records
In MongoDB,the limit() method is used to limit the result set to be returned. You can also use this with various methods such as sort() and skip() for various combination of requirement.The MS SQL...
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Timing your SQL Server Maintenance Jobs
Maintenance in General is a necessity for SQL Server. No different than changing the oil in your car or going to the Doctor for the annual exam. There is going to be times when you are going to need...
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Understanding the configuration file order for Wyse Thin Clients
ProblemIn an earlier article, I went over how you can configure your system to use a FTP server with DHCP option tags to automatically configure the device. Today, I am going to go over these...
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PolyBase: I now Pronounce you SQL and Hadoop
Are you interested in Hadoop? With SQL Server 2016 just around the corner, a powerful new feature is being included called PolyBase. To summarize what it is, just think about it as a marriage...
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Differences between data types between SQL Server and Oracle
Recently there has been some talk online about how SQL Server processes data type conversions compared to how Oracle’s method for type conversion. I figured that I would clear up some of the confusion...
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You Can’t Force Query Plans If They Use TVPs With PKs
Have you ever played “Fortunately/Unfortunately”? It’s a game where players alternately give good news and bad news. It goes something like this:Databases such as SQL Server make it easy to retrieve...
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The Server Draft
If you were given the chance to build the ultimate server, what would you draft first?The post The Server Draft appeared first on Thomas LaRock.If you liked this post then consider subscribing to the...
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PowerSehll : How to suppress the table heading and remove the blank space...
There are a multiple ways to suppress and remove the first line from text file. The first scenario would be writing a suppressed heading to an output text file Or after writing, we can remove the line...
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How do you audit automatically generated sql deployment scripts?
I saw recently an email where someone stated that the reason that they manually create deployment scripts is that because of the restirctions put on them by the requirements for auditing and the...
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