Blog Post: HOW TO: Find When SQL Server Wait Stats Were Last Cleared
For years I have found myself often needing these three pieces of information with regards to SQL Server: When was the last time the server was restarted? When was the last time the SQL instance was...
View ArticleBlog Post: Use the WordPress Revision Counter to Keep Shipping Posts
I haven’t been at this blogging thing an extremely long time, and I certainly haven’t been as consistent as I’ve wanted to (working hard on this though – at least one post a week!). There is no...
View ArticleBlog Post: Danish SQL User Group General Assembly
For many years, the Danish SQL Server User group (under the PASS umbrella) has been stagnating !! So much stagnating that other successful initiatives have started. Some of my fellow members and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Clean out all bad characters from a string.
I have a customer who is having a problem with a load. He is getting a fair number of bad characters including some unicode characters. The unicode characters in particular are making it so those...
View ArticleBlog Post: Monitoring the SSAS Connector in the Power BI Preview
Welcome to part 3 of a 3-part series on using the SSAS Connector with the new Power BI Preview. This information is as of early March 2015 and is subject to change as the Power BI Preview evolves....
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2014 BI دورة تمهيدية شاملة في
الزملاء الأعزاء من العالم! السلام عليكم و رحمه الله و بركاته أقدم لكم دورة تمهيدية شاملة في SQL Server 2014 BI. وتقدم هذه الدورة التدريبية باللغة العربية، وتهدف إلى المساعدة فى التقديم للمفاهيم...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to install SharePoint 2013 on Windows 2012R2
If you want to jump straight to the condensed solution, then please feel free to go to the Condensed Installation instructions below. If you find this post useful or have any feedback then please...
View ArticleBlog Post: Port numbers and SQL Server
I made a mistake the other day. I’ll admit it. I was wrong. Now I know all of you are shocked, but it does happen on rare occasions. So what was I wrong about you might ask? One of the dev groups I...
View ArticleBlog Post: NaturalInnerJoin And NaturalLeftOuterJoin DAX Functions In Excel 2016
Continuing my series on new DAX functions in Excel 2016, here are two more: NaturalInnerJoin() and NaturalLeftOuterJoin(). Both do pretty much what you’d expect. Consider the following two tables in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Backups – They Are Needed, Who Knew?
Backups are essential for a successful business model. That statement may or may spark some topics for debate, but at the end of the day if the data professional does not have a form of backup in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Extending SSIS With .NET scripting
Earlier this year I got embarked on a book project together with Joost Van Rossum ( B | T ) , a dutch fellow MVP. A book about a subject that has always been very dear to me and crucial to the success...
View ArticleBlog Post: Presenting This Week: Enterprise Data World
This week I will be attending Enterprise Data World in Washington, DC. I’m excited to have been given the opportunity to present not one but TWO sessions at the premiere data management conference in...
View ArticleBlog Post: Create SQL Azure Database(PaaS)
Today we can see the step by step procedure to create SQL Azure database(PaaS),As mentioned in the previous couple of articles any Microsoft Cloud based service you need a Azure Subscriptio n (...
View ArticleBlog Post: BI Survey 15
It’s BI Survey time again! BI Survey is the largest annual survey of BI users in the world, so if you want to share your feelings on Microsoft BI tools or whatever else you’re using then this is the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft buys the dictionary
It seems that Microsoft has finally gotten tired of all the jokes about the word “performant” or using “ask” as a noun. Microsoft has decided to put it’s money where it’s mouth is and has announced...
View ArticleBlog Post: Some Tweets I Drew
Last week I asked for people to give me illustration ideas on twitter using the hashtag #SwartDrawsTweets . Thanks for everyone who gave me suggestions. Here are a few of them. The Stig Brent Ozar...
View ArticleBlog Post: Database Deployment Work Flow with SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
Happy April Fools Day everyone! I hope that you do not spend too much time reading completely false blog posts today. I, for one, promise that this post is not an April Fools Day joke. Feel free to...
View ArticleBlog Post: What is a Data Dictionary?
What is a Data Dictionary? In SQL Server the data dictionary is a set of database tables used to store information about a database’s definition. The dictionary contains information about database...
View ArticleBlog Post: Connect the Nots
Today I learned that you can’t adjust the font size in SQL Server Management Studio’s Object Explorer pane. Nor registered servers, nor properties. This has been noted, and closed as “Maybe someday...
View ArticleBlog Post: Look at Blocking By Index
This post is for me. It’s a script I find useful so I’m putting it in a place where I know to go look for it, my blog. You may find it useful too. The script below extends the DMV...
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