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Enterpise Policy Management Framework – Skip the Report
Policy-Based Management in SQL Server is a wonderful and underused feature. The Enterprise Policy Management Framework available through Codeplex further enhances this with reports and history tables,...
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SQL Server monitoring and virtualization management – Getting closer all the...
Photo credit: Tony Hall. Licensed for commercial use under CC 2.0.As a DBA or DevOps person, how many different management and monitoring tools for virtualization and Microsoft SQL Server are deployed...
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Free SQL Azure eBook
As this blog post is being published David will be delivering his “Putting his Head in the Cloud – Working with SQL Azure” talk at SQL Saturday in Denmark. In preparation for his talk David has and...
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Groups in Power BI - How Sharing and Security Works
This past week, groups in Power BI came up multiple times. This post is to give a quick overview of what you can and cannot currently do with groups in Power BI V2. This info is as of mid Sept 2015;...
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Lessons Learned
In an effort to be transparent, as I promised I would in my campaign, I want to explain my actions regarding the email sent out through the PASS Virtual Chapter. As part of my campaign, I reached out...
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#0361 – SQL Server – Script to identify the currently running T-SQL query...
Many a times we encounter a situation wherein a stored procedure is taking a very long time to execute and the team would like to understand – whether the batch is making any progress or not and what...
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SQL Saturday Denmark #413 post-event
This is the day after, the day after.We’ve all slept the Sunday out and are ready for our day jobs again!ThanksThanks you for a great event to:The sponsors, who made everything possibleThe volunteers...
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Zombie AD Groups
I spent something like 2 hours today trying to figure out how a particular user had access to one of my databases. It’s one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen while playing with SQL Server...
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Where is my data stored?
Tables within SQL Server can contain a maximum of 8060 bytes per row. However even though columns are limited to a maximum of 8000 bytes in size, the combined size of all the columns in a table can...
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Populating My DBA Database for Power Bi with PowerShell – Databases
Following my post about using Power Bi with my DBA Database I have been asked if I would share the PowerShell scripts which I use to populate my database.In this post I will show how to create the...
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Most Read: My Top 5 SQL Server Articles and Blogs
There has been some really useful blogs and articles posted over the last week or so, this is my top 5 in no particular orderInteresting post here from BrentOzar.com looking at the statistics on the...
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Comparison Predicates and Event Data
In the previous installment, I began covering the topic of predicates. In that article I demonstrated that there are multiple types of predicates. There are two objects that fall into the predicate...
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Heading To PASS Summit 2015 – Now What?
You’ve heard about it for some time now, and you finally got the gumption to ask your boss if the company would send you to PASS Summit 2015. A few days or weeks elapse and you get word that you were...
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Announcing the IS [NOT] NULL Newsletter
Today I want to officially announce the IS [NOT] NULL newsletter. You may have seen me mention the IS [NOT] NULL newsletter on Twitter and Facebook in previous weeks but today I want to show off the...
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Power BI Custom Visuals Contest Round-up
It’s really exciting to see the first round of entries into the Power BI Best Visuals Contest, which has been running for about two weeks and wraps up on October 1. The first people’s choice award...
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Make Me Dress Stupid(er) at PASS Summit!
There’s a little more than a month to go until two momentous occasions are upon us: PASS Summit, and the deadline for Argenis Without Borders 2.0!If you’re not familiar with last year’s incarnation,...
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Setting up a new CI server to build SSDT projects
I am going to ignore the fact that people don't want to install visual studio on a build server, in the future there will likely be a way to install just the required components rather than everything....
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“sql_handle” is not a recognized table hints option.
I’ve you’ve run a query similar to the following:SELECT * FROM sys.dm_exec_requests CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(sql_handle);And gotten an error similar to:Msg 321, Level 15, State 1, Line...
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SQL Server’s TIMESTAMP Is Not What You May Think It Is. - WaterOx Consulting
TIMESTAMP vs. DATETIME: What’s the diff? The TIMESTAMP data type in SQL...The post SQL Server’s TIMESTAMP Is Not What You May Think It Is. appeared first on WaterOx Consulting.
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Inside an SSDT Deployment Contributor
In my deployment filter I have been asked a couple of times to allow columns that exist on a table that do not exist in a dacpac to be ignored so that they are deleted. The typical scenario is that a...
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