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When does it make sense to move to the cloud?
Moving to the cloud isn’t for everyone. When the cloud providers first launched their cloud platforms their approach, and marketing message, was for the most part that everything should be running in...
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Introduction to the UPDATE statement
The UPDATE statement is used to change data within columns of a SQL Server data table. In this article we’ll explore how to use the UPDATE statement. We discuss some best practices, limitations, and...
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SQL SERVER – Fix: Error: Msg 1904 The statistics on table has 65 columns in...
With SQL Server 2016, I have come to know some of the restrictions which were applicable earlier are no longer the limits to look for. In one such experimentation is what I stumbled upon the blog post:...
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SSMS 2016 Bug
I have been using SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) 2016 build number 13.0.15900.1 and noticed that if you wanted to manage compression you couldn’t as it is greyed out. Microsoft SQL Server...
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PASS Keynote Part 2 – Live Coverage
Good morning from PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. Like yesterday I will be live blogging the event. The same format of the blog will apply with up to 5 releases every 15 minutes.Yesterday was a...
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PASS Summit Keynote 2 – Release 1
Grant Fritchey taking the stage to talk about the financial health of PASS.250k members , 170 countries, and 87% global representation – outstanding.73% return into the community; focused on being a...
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PASS Summit Keynote 2 – Release 2
Dr. David DeWitt is getting ready to take the stage to a huge ovation and is thrilled to be back at PASS Summit.Haha, bring back #BringBackRimma is a twitter tag that he has put in place….looking...
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Deleting Cached Logins For Azure Analysis Services In SQL Server Management...
When Azure Analysis Services was announced I had to try it out right away. Of course I didn’t read the instructions properly so when I tried to log in to my Azure Analysis Services instance from SQL...
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SQL SERVER – Configuring Startup Options for SQL Server Management Studio
Yesterday I started my day early to get to a gym. I know this was the first day and I had loads of work pending to be completed at work too. This got me busy and I started to drive my car, oblivious of...
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SQL Server Compression 101
The data compression feature in SQL Server can help reduce the size of the database as well as improve the performance of intensive I/O intensive workloads, especially on data warehouses. This...
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In Action: Technical Preview of Power BI Reports in SSRS
Yesterday the SSRS team made the announcement that we can now consume Power BI reports inside Reporting Services. You can upload your Power BI files (.pbix) to the Report Manager, or deploy them to the...
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PASS Summit Announcements: DMA/DEA
Microsoft usually has some interesting announcements at the PASS Summit, and this year was no exception. My next few blogs will cover the major announcements. This first one is about the Data...
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SQL SERVER – FIX Error: Maintenance plan scheduled but job is not running as...
This was one of the interesting issues I solved in many days. One of my clients contacted me and told that they have scheduled a maintenance plan to take t-log backup at 10 PM but it’s not running....
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Performance Comparison EXCEPT vs NOT IN – Interview Question of the Week #095
During SQLPass summit, I was asked following question by one of the attendees. The question was about Performance Comparison of Except vs NOT IN. Let us quickly discuss this question.Question: Which of...
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Why a Semantic Layer Like Azure Analysis Services is Relevant
This is part 1 of 2 about Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) which was announced a few days ago. Azure AS is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering which is currently in public preview mode at the...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Recycle ERRORLOG Using sp_cycle_errorlog
There are many DBAs who create jobs in SQL Server to recycle ERRORLOG files every midnight. They also increase the files from 6 to a bigger number so that they have data for more than 6 days.Here is...
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#0392 – SQL Server – SSIS – OLE DB Destination – Table Fast Load – Check...
The "Check Constraints" checkbox on an OLE DB destination task controls whether Check Constraints on the OLE DB destination are evaluated when performing bulk data inserts by the SSIS package or not. I...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Bring SQL Online – DoSQLDataRootApplyACL : Failed to...
Here is one of email which I received from one of my clients where he mentioned that he was unable to bring SQL Online.Pinal, I need assistance in getting the failed SQL Server resource online on the...
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SQL Server DMA – Data Migration Assistant V2.0
One of the benefits of twitter is that you get to hear about new tools quickly, one of the tools being the DMA – Data Migration Assistant (Version 2). It “enables you to upgrade to a modern data...
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SSAS Documentation With Squarehouse Commentary
A few months ago I found out about a new tool for managing and viewing Analysis Services Multidimensional documentation called Squarehouse Commentary. I’ve now had the chance to play around with it and...
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