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Why You Want to Use the Latest SQL Server Management Studio Release
We have two main built-in tools for interacting with a SQL Server database platorm: SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). This post is about SSMS and why you may want to...
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PowerShell – Tip: How to Format PowerShell Script Output?
I have been writing on various ways of working with PowerShell and how to connect to SQL Server. Personally, when I see text on command prompt it is quite a mess and very difficult to decipher the...
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Fastest Way to Display Code of Any Stored Procedure – Interview Question of...
A very common question I often see users not sure about the answer. This is indeed a tricky question, but a very simple one. If I am the interviewer, I may ask this question to the user, but if they do...
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PowerShell – Script to Listing all Backups Taken with SQL Server
I always like to keep a number of scripts handy in my USB drive with my Laptop. These scripts are used for my internal use when I am suddenly looking for something interesting in customer environments....
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#0391 – SQL Server – SSIS – OLE DB Destination – Table Fast Load –...
The "Table Lock" checkbox on an OLE DB destination task works identical to the T-SQL TABLOCK table hint. I explore how to leverage OLE DB Table Lock setting to get better SQL Server data load performance.
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Synchronous vs Asynchronous
You’ll hear these terms thrown around in programming all the time, but what do they mean and why do we care? Starting with simple definitions first:Synchronousoccurring at the same time; coinciding in...
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PowerShell : CSV – Disk Space Report – Excel
AbstractMonitoring disk space utilization of server(s) is a critical and important job for any administrator. Keeping things organized might improve application availability and server availability....
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SQL SERVER – Displaying SQL Agent Jobs Running at a Specific Time
Recently I was troubleshooting at a customer location something that looked trivial. When the customer approached me for a consulting requirement wherein they were saying their system was going...
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Azure App Service Companion for iOS
This has absolutely nothing to do with SQL Server, it actually has nothing to do with data but I felt like blogging about it. I saw an announcement recently and I was intrigued by it. All my excitement...
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First Thoughts On Azure Analysis Services
Hurray! At last we have proper cloud-based Analysis Services! The official blog post with the announcement is...
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SQL SERVER – FIX Error 5120 – Database is in Read Only Mode After Attaching...
Sometimes you need to know more about permissions on file, service account etc. to fix certain errors. In my recent visit to a customer location, one of the database developers came to me with a...
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More bytes for Row versioning
I like row versioning– see this link for more details: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189122(v=sql.105).aspx If your database is enabled for one of the isolation levels that uses row...
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PASS Summit 2016 – Live Keynote
Good morning from PASS Summit 2016!Today will be the first keynote session at 8:15 a.m. with Joseph Sirosh. I’ve found myself back at the bloggers table this year during the keynotes so check back here...
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PASS Summit Live Keynote – Release 1
Joseph Sirosh taking the stage by first telling us a story with over 400 million children in India. Only 50% of them attend school regularly. Consider the loss of potential that could have been a...
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PASS Summit Live Keynote -Release 2
Rohan Kumar, General Manager of Microsoft, takes the stage hyping up SQL Server 2016. We keep hearing the word “Sharing” among databases.Intelligent Database:In-Memory AnalyticsIn-Memory OLTPWow, 100X...
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My 2016
2016 was a blast at work. For most of 2016, I worked with a small team of three called the Samurai team. The team name was taken from the wandering Samurai who wanders from village to village doing...
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PASS Summit Live Keynote – Release 3
Justin Silver, Scientist Pros, takes the stage……Taking data science out of the lab settings and placing it into real world scenarios.Azure has tremendously been able to allow enhanced functionality...
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PASS Summit Live Keynote – Release 4
Document DB: Blazing fast planet-scale NoSQL:Guaranteed Low LatencyElastically Scaling StorageElastically Scaling ThroughputNo Impedance MismatchChoice of ConsistencyEnterprise Level SLAAzure +...
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PASS Summit Live Keynote – Release 5
Julie Koesmarno, Senior Project Manager at Microsoft, takes the stage to talk about business analytics utilizing War and Peace.Tracing emotions of each key characters via a heat map…..pretty cool to...
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Three Reasons Why I Am Attending PASS Member Summit 2016
Three reasons why I am attending PASS Member Summit in 2016Over the past few weeks, I saw on social media that many of my #sqlfamily members were not attending the PASS Member Summit conference this...
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