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Calculated Tables In Power BI
There are loads of great new features in today’s release of Power BI Desktop, but for me the most important by far is the introduction of calculated tables. Miguel Llopis gives a good introduction to...
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Freecon – Oct 27 in Seattle
Just over a week ago I announced that SQL Solutions Group was getting ready to host a day of training, FREECON if you will, in Seattle as a prelude to the PASS Summit of 2015. You can read all about...
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Deployment Contributor KeepTableColumns Filter
To help with this scenario (it is pretty specific):You have a table that has columns that you do not know about when you create the dacpac, possibly you have a customer who modifies your schema after...
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Assembling a Session
Up to this point, I have taken a lot of time to discuss the various components of Extended Events. There is good reason for that. The components I have discussed are essential pieces of Extended Events...
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Jen’s PASS Diary: I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks; and ever...
Thank you for electing me for a second term as a Director-At-Large for PASS!I’m delighted to serve alongside Tim Ford (t) again. I can’t emphasise this enough: Tim does an awesome job of the...
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The Extended Event GUI
In the previous article in this series I shared the basics around assembling an XEvent session. The method used in that article was via TSQL script. In this article, I will introduce the Extended...
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Recommended reading from mrdenny for September 25, 2015
This week I’ve found some great things for you to read. These are a few of my favorites that I’ve found this week.Using Microsoft DiskSpd to Test Your Storage SubsystemDBTA – StretchDB, a Cool New...
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Tables.GetRelationships() Function In Power BI M
There’s a new M function in the latest release of Power BI Desktop that I spotted: Tables.GetRelationships(). Here’s the help page for it:Basically, what it does is return all the relationships between...
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Power Bi, PowerShell and SQL Agent Jobs
Continuing my series on using Power Bi with my DBA Database I am going to show in this post how I create the most useful daily report for DBAs – The SQL Agent Job report. You can get the scripts and...
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SSMS Connection Information
If you work with a number of different instances and have lots of connections open in Management Studio (SSMS) it can be kind of hard to remember which connection is which. Fortunately all of the...
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Configuring Files for TempDB database
First article on SQL Server 2016 http://www.sql-server-performance.com/2015/configuring-files-for-tempdb-database/http://dbfriend.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
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Microsoft Readies Big Data Service That Includes New U-SQL Language
Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed plans to offer a new HDFS-compatible Hadoop File System data store that could run large analytics workloads called Azure Data Lake. So far, the technical preview...
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Azure Data Lake enhancements
I first blogged about Microsoft’s new product, the Azure Data Lake, a few months back (here). There are already enhancements, as announced at Stata + Hadoop World. Here they are in brief:The Azure...
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Overview Power BI V2 Features End-to-End
Back when we were using Power BI for Office 365 (V1), I did an end-to-end feature diagram. Since the first one was popular, here's an updated diagram for the "new" Power BI (V2):Note the above is...
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AzureCon round up: Intelligent Cloud, Applications, Data, Infrastructure,...
I organised an AzureCon viewing party tonight in Hertfordshire, with great team support from Team Awesome over at Cloudamour.We watched a total of four keynotes, running back to back for almost four...
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Updating a view
I was recently asked how to update views. Specifically the question was about using triggers to update a view. So updating a simple view is easy enough. Per BOL:Updatable ViewsYou can modify the data...
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Deployment Contributor Logger
Niche tool of the dayIf you know what a deployment contributor is and have wanted to see what steps were in a plan and have got bored setting a breakpoint in visual studio and using the watch window or...
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SQL Server 2016 CTP4
I’ve been waiting impatiently for this release and some of the new improvements and functionality that comes with. Some of the In-Memory capabilities as well as a few new features in SSIS.Go ahead,...
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SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.4
I’ve been waiting impatiently for this release and some of the new improvements and functionality that comes with. Some of the In-Memory capabilities as well as a few new features in SSIS.Go ahead,...
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Upgrading a SQL FCI to Premium Storage in Azure Without Downtime
Recently I was asked by a client to upgrade their SQL Server Failover Cluster from standard storage to Azure premium storage with as little downtime as possible. Due to the fact that the SQL Server...
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