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Referencing Individual Cell Values From Tables In Power Query
[This blog post is relevant to Power Query in Excel 2010/2013, the Get & Transform tab in Excel 2016, and the Get Data screen in Power BI Desktop. I’m going to use the term ‘Power Query’ in this...
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Help! I am Locked Out of my SQL Server Instance
Beginning with SQL Server 2008, local administrators are no longer SQL Server sysadmins by default. Microsoft removed this feature in an attempt to increase security. I agree with the change. The...
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PASS Election Changes
The 2014 NomCom made some changes to how the election process works and it’s something you need to pay attention to. It was posted on the PASS blog, but not really advertised that much so I want to...
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Performance Test Your Catastrophes
Tackling A Hairy Problem This series includes a number of stand-alone posts which can fit together to tell a bigger story Part One: Types of Performance MetricsPart Two: What’s Going On Inside...
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Troubleshooting Tempdb, a Case Study
Tackling A Hairy Problem This series includes a number of stand-alone posts which can fit together to tell a bigger story Part One: Types of Performance MetricsPart Two: What’s Going On Inside...
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*tap tap tap* Hello World?
Let’s see if I can remember how all of this goes….Start with a “hello”Insert a picture that hopefully somewhat relates to my blog postand now proceed to the guts of the post. So hi everyone!! I have to...
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Overview of Azure Data Catalog in the Cortana Analytics Suite
Azure Data Catalog is one of the components of the Cortana Analytics Suite. This post is as of September 2015; at this time the Azure Data Catalog is still in public preview so we can expect many...
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Using @@ROWCOUNT can be a bit tricky
@@ROWCOUNT is a very useful system variable that returns the number of rows read/affected by the previous statement. It’s frequently used in loops and in error handling.TL;DR Store @@ROWCOUNT into a...
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Storing Event Data
Among the several core concepts of Extended Events is the concept of storing event payloads / data. When an event fires, it would not be far-fetched to want to be able to review that data at some time...
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Want to speak at the PASS Summit, but haven’t been selected?
The Speaker Idol may be your answer to how to get to the PASS Summit as a speaker. The Speaker Idol competition, in it’s second year now with PASS, will be held throughout the conference with four...
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PASS Election Questions Answered
As we continue through the campaign period for this year’s PASS Board of Directors Election (Voting opens tomorrow morning), I want to continue to show our community members the type of board member I...
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Blogging Update
I wanted to take a moment to give you some updates on a few things related to this blog. First up, you may have noticed things look a bit different here. The blog has been redesigned. In fact, it’s not...
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Upcoming User Group, Conference And Teaching Dates In Scandinavia, UK and USA
I’m going to be doing a lot of speaking at various events over the next few months, and so I thought I would let you know about where I’ll be in case you want to attend.ScandinaviaNext week I’m doing a...
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Voting in the PASS Election 2015
Another year, another set of elections. It’s that time where those who care about their industry and the future of the community we work within take to the PASS website to see who has put themselves...
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PASS Election Questions Answered 2
Today I am going to continue with my PASS Election Questions and Answers series. Here is where you can find the rest of the series and my campaign landing page.Election Landing PageMy Board...
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Getting data into Azure Blob Storage
If you have on-prem data and want to copy it to Azure Blob Storage in the cloud, what are all the possible ways to do it? There are many, and here is a quick review of them:AzCopy: A popular...
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Microsoft…. Y U NO FIX??
I would like…. if I may… it take you on a strange journey….Consider this:A SQL Server database with ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION set to trueA stored procedure that creates a #temp table in tempdb and...
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Essential Tools for the DBA Private Eye, Part One: Database Monitoring Is...
Sherlock Holmes got by on guile and intuition. Rookie!A database administrator is IT’s equivalent of a private investigator. When things go awry, users look to the DBA to solve IT mysteries, such as...
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PASS Summit 2015 1st Timers Webcast Recording
This year’s PASS Summit 1st Timers webcast recording didn’t happen as planned. And sadly my voice is currently gone so I’m not able to record a new one in the few days that I’m at home. So because of...
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SQL Saturday San Diego tomorrow! (September 18)
This weekend we’re going to hit SQL Saturday San Diego for the first time ever! We are the excited. Come and see us at our MinionWare booth (yes we’re vendors woooo!!), and at our sessions and...
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