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Azure SQL Database – TDE
I work in the financial space so you can imagine that security is quite high on the agenda. TDE (Transparent Data Encryption – see this article for more details...
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#0389 – SQL Server – SSIS – OLE DB Destination – Table Fast Load – Keep NULLs...
The "Keep Nulls" option in the OLE DB destination in SSIS has a noticeable impact on the quality of data being migrated. In this post, I explore the impact of the switch on migrating NULL values.
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SQL SERVER – Performance Benefit of Using SPARSE Columns?
I have written a number of blogs around working with SPARSE Columns in the past and a primer to what SPARSE Columns can be got from the list mentioned:SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to SPARSE...
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Configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 for YUM without a Redhat Subscription
It has been a very long time since I have installed a Redhat Enterprise Linux distribution having tended to prefer Ubuntu based distributions (such as Linux Mint) or CentOS if I really wanted a Redhat...
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If backups are taken in silence can a recovery still take place?
My friend Andy Mallon (b/t) is hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month. In case you aren’t aware T-SQL Tuesday is a blog party started by Adam Machanic (b/t) almost 7 years ago. Each month someone selects a...
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PASS Summit Advice For First Timers
As I scrolled through the twitter feeds I ran across one from Tom LaRock (b|t) on PASS Summit being three weeks away:Now, what caught my eye was the fact that he mentions the word “advice” to first...
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Fight harassment: be the “Backup” at PASS Summit
Harassment is a problem at some of the conferences we go to. What can we, as attendees and speakers and volunteers, can do to help? There should be a better way to ask others for help, and there should...
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T-SQL Tuesday #83: We’re still dealing with the same problems
It’s about time I got back into participating in the T-SQL Tuesday block parties that are hosted by community members each month. First, let’s take care of some house keeping rules.Who Is Hosting?This...
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SQL SERVER – Msg 3047, Level 16, State 1: The BackupDirectory Registry Key is...
While writing my earlier blog, I broke a few settings and started getting new errors. Earlier, when I used to run below command, it used to work fine. However, just a day ago, it has given me error...
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Why do I fly all over the world giving presentations?
I travel, a lot. A lot of my travel is to go speak at events somewhere in the world. I’ve had the privilege of being able to travel to 4 continents and 12 countries (that I can think of) giving...
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SQL SERVER – Error – Attempted to Perform an Unauthorized Operation
As you might know I try hard to help the community via various channels. Comment on my blog is one of that channels. Here is a blog post which talks about error about Unauthorized Operation.Recently,...
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Microsoft Certifications
Every now and again I would navigate to Microsoft’s certification page and see what / if any changes have taken place regarding certification within the Data Platform space. (Check out the link –...
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Defining Variables In DAX Queries
Variables are the best thing to happen to DAX since, well forever – they are so cool I’m almost ready to like DAX as much as I like MDX. There are already several good articles and blog posts out there...
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Too many indexes!
Indexes are great. They speed up our queries. In fact, without them relational database systems wouldn’t work.Different indexes work best for different queries. In a system with a lot of queries that...
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SQL Server – Understanding Connection Timeouts and Query Timeouts
Have you ever got into a situation wherein you feel you see something and work for a solution in a completely opposite direction? Recently I was out of the country for a session and at the breakfast...
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Suggested reading: MDX Date Picker, MS Certification Paths, Dynamics 365
I found some posts, news and came across some issues you might be interested in.I'm creating some reports for a client and am working with SSAS Tabular. I therefore have to deal with MDX based...
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SQL SERVER – Error: 26014, Severity: 16. Unable to Load User Specified...
Recently I was consulting a customer and they had plans to change certificate used by SQL Server. After making changes to certificate, we found that we were not able to start the SQL Server Service....
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When was Domain Account Password Changed in SQL Server? – Interview Question...
If you are a DBA for quite some time, then at least once you must have encountered below error about Domain Account Password.Error 1069: The service did not start due to a logon failure.Question: When...
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Guess who is appearing in Joseph Sirosh’s PASS Keynote?
This girl! I am super excited and please allow me to have one little SQUUEEEEEEE! before I tell you what’s happening. Now, this is a lifetime achievement for me, and I cannot begin to tell you how...
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SQL SERVER – Database going to Recovery Pending Automatically and Coming Back
I love connecting community via various channels. One of my clients explained an interesting issue to me. He explained that he has a production database which is going to Recovery Pendingstate by...
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