Blog Post: SSDT Myths #1 - SSDT only works with TFS
I was reading a white paper from a Sql Server tools vendor about how to integrate their tools with SSDT and while it was very interesting there were a couple of inaccuracies and I wanted to clear one...
View ArticleBlog Post: Jen’s Diary – Time to Answer, or Time to Question? Plus some EMEA...
Hello again, As always, I do not speak officially for PASS. This is my diary, and a bit of a brain dump. I’m as busy as ever with PASS Business Analytics Conference , and things are going well. I’m...
View ArticleBlog Post: Generating tSQLt tests from a dacpac
Generating tSQLt tests from a dacpac I use SSDT and tSQLt in my work and I am always interested in productivity tools to help speed up development and make it more streamlined, if there is something...
View ArticleBlog Post: In-Memory OLTP Basics: Part 2 – Hash and Range Indexes
Following on from Part 1 – An Introduction to In-Memory OLTP this post will focus on the new types of indexes that are supported. I mentioned in part 1 that clustered indexes are not supported for...
View ArticleBlog Post: Gerar DACPAC usando Powershell v2
Para quem leu meu post anterior de Gerar DACPAC usando Powershell percebeu que é um código muito simples, passível de erros como: digitar o nome do banco errado, símbolos nos nomes dos bancos, não...
View ArticleBlog Post: What is a CTE
CTEs ( Common Table Expressions ) are one of the most interesting and useful tools added to T-SQL in the last decade. But even though they have been around for that decade and are widely used I still...
View ArticleBlog Post: Exam Prep 70-463: Introduction to Master Data
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. So far, we’ve covered: Tables and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Finding Scalar Aggregate Indexed Views in Your Database
Fellow MVP Paul White recently blogged about a SQL Server bug. His blog post is called An Indexed View Bug with Scalar Aggregates It’s a really well-written article (as always). After reading it, it’s...
View ArticleBlog Post: Enterprise Data World 2015 Recap
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend Enterprise Data World in Washington DC. I was not just at EDW as an attendee, I was also presenting two sessions. Since it was my first EDW that meant I had...
View ArticleBlog Post: Documentation For New Excel 2016 DAX Functions
Microsoft has published documentation for the new DAX functions in the Excel 2016 preview here:...
View ArticleBlog Post: In-Memory OLTP: Part 1 – Introduction
Back in December I wrote a review of Kalen Daleny’s book SQL Server Internals: In-Memory OLTP , you can read it here Since then I’ve had a chance investigate the new functionality for myself and as...
View ArticleForum Post: ERD from select statement
Hi, I have 200 reports pointing to 12 different databases that no longer exist. I want to generate schemas so I can understand the original database. The queries are quite big. Does Toad allow...
View ArticleComment on Backups – They Are Needed, Who Knew?
Hi, thanks for the post. Although it's a bit of a repeated answer to a constantly repeated question it's the most important task any DBA should take on board. Just running a backup is just not good...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSMS regular expressions: format text into a block
Sean’s RegEx for DBAs class must be finally sinking in for me. Today I was able to figure out a RegEx thing in SQL Server Management Studio. Here’s the problem: Sometimes I document an SP in MS Word,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft DataZen Mobile Platform Available to SQL Server...
Last month Microsoft announced that they had acquired the DataZen mobile BI platform and were adding it to their enterprise BI product suite. This is very exciting news that rounds out the Microsoft...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2016 public preview coming this summer
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, announced SQL Server 2016 , an intelligent platform for a mobile first, cloud first world. The next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics...
View ArticleBlog Post: Improving Power Query Calculation Performance With List.Buffer()
I saw an interesting post the other day on the Power Query Technet forum which showed how the List.Buffer() function could be used to improve calculation performance. This is something I’d seen hinted...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2016 Preview...Coming this Summer
It was announced yesterday at the Ignite conference that we’ll be getting a summer preview of SQL Server 2016. With it being a bank holiday in the UK … I missed it yesterday You can read the blog post...
View ArticleBlog Post: Book Review: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Earlier this year, my buddy Dan recommended that I read The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right . The recommendation was actually more of a demand. When we had been talking about my need to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tip # 6 – Change History
Tip # 6 – Change History Top 10 Tips for SQL Server Performance and Resiliency This article is part 6 in a series on the top 10 most common mistakes that I have seen impacting SQL Server Performance...
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