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5 Things I need you to do if you want me to nominate you for an MVP Award
It’s great to see so many people want to participate in the MVP Program. I find that I’m being asked fairly frequently at the moment – say, a couple of times a week – by community individuals if I will...
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How is performance impacted by having too many NUMA nodes?
Having too many NUMA nodes can lead to some really strange CPU behavior. What you’ll probably see is that the CPU workload of the machine isn’t evenly balanced across the CPUs. If for example you have...
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RAID Storage and SQL Server
If you are a SQL Server Administrator, eventually you are going to need to request specific storage for your servers. Depending on the setup at your current company, that is all handled in the...
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Big Stories on Big Data
Every one talks big on big data, But has it really implemented in real world. This article tells us about real world implementation on Big Data.Read the full article at...
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Is Today Your Last Day Working With SQL?
Please entertain this thought for a moment – If today was your last day working with SQL how would you spend it?Now, this post is assuming you, as the reader, are working with SQL in some form or...
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SSIS: The Buffer Manager Failed a Memory Allocation Call
I recently made the switch to Pulse (you can read about it here), so I am working with lots of new clients lately. One of those clients was having issues with refreshing their data warehouse and SSAS...
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PowerShell CMDLets added for SQL2016 Always Encrypted
The post on the SQLServer blog at TechNet by the SQL Server Tools Team today made me jump out of my seat.The July update for SSMS includes the first substantial improvement in SQL PowerShell in many...
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Securing MongoDB – User Administration
The db.createUser(user, writeConcern) method used to create users.We need to provide the username, password and rolesThe definition of createUser as...
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I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP
My First Microsoft SQL Server MVP AwardToday, I have achieved an SQL Someday moment. I am excited to share some exciting news. Microsoft has chosen me to receive the Microsoft “MVP” award. I am...
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Step Descriptions And Comments In M Code In Power BI Desktop
The June release of Power BI Desktop has what seems to be a fairly unremarkable new feature in that it allows you to add descriptions to each step in a query in the Query Editor window. However the...
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Tips for Using Azure Data Catalog
It seems there's a lot of interest in Azure Data Catalog from the customers that I work with. Since I've been discussing it a lot recently during projects, I thought I'd share a few thoughts and...
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Using the new SQLServer Powershell module to get SQL Agent Job Information
So with the July Release of SSMS everything changed for using PowerShell with SQL. You can read the details here As I mentioned in my previous post the name of the module has changed to sqlserverThis...
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#0375 – SQL Server -Collation conflicts may occur when working with string...
Always follow best practices and specify a column definition when defining a table - permanent, staging or temporary.
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July Already...
Amazingly its July already, the year is flying by. With a very busy July and August lined up and a nice holiday at the end of it, there is a lot to look forward too.Over the next four weeks I’m going...
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Influence Skills
I wrote in my earlier post today that I was producing 294 Influence Skills: Getting results without direct authority. I said in that post it was my favourite non-technical Learning Tree course.Well...
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Influence Skills Live from London Day 1
This week I am producing course 294 Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority. I wrote what being a producer means here. Today I’m going Live blog the event so you can get a feel for...
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Prioritize This List of Issues
“One thing at a time / And that done well / Is a very good thing / As any can tell”But life isn’t always that easy is it? I spend a lot of my workday juggling priorities. And I want to compare what I...
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How To Survive A Database Disaster
I am here today to share with you my FOOLPROOF method that allows you and your business to SURVIVE any database disaster.The post How To Survive A Database Disaster appeared first on Thomas LaRock.If...
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Phantom SSIS Changes
That SSIS change just won’t stick! There is a new business requirement, so now you have to change an existing SSIS package. You opened up a new project, imported the package, and made your changes....
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Tuesday Morning SQL Break – July 5, 2016
Yesterday was a holiday here in the United States, so I’m starting the week on Tuesday. For those in the same boat as me, this will be a short week, which means less time to get stuff done. In short...
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