Blog Post: Monitoring For Endless Index Defragmenting – September 2015
It’s been quite a while since I last took a look at my script to monitor for endless index defragmenting by Ola Hallengren’s index maintenance scripts. Before running this version, I suggest you read...
View ArticleBlog Post: Extended Events and Fixed Schemas
Working with databases, XML, and many software applications, it is not uncommon to deal with fixed schemas. In the database world, it is fairly fundamental to have some sort of schema. The schema...
View ArticleBlog Post: My Board Qualities
I’m going to hopefully show examples of some qualities I have that will benefit me if chosen as a board member. I’m going to do that by pretending you folks asked me some questions. Here we go!...
View ArticleBlog Post: PolyBase Technology, Instance Feature or Common Feature?
PolyBase is a new feature added to the SQL Server 2016. This feature includes PolyBase technology that enables truly integrated querying across Hadoop non-relational data and SQL Server relational data...
View ArticleBlog Post: ScriptDom versioning issues
I installed the 2016 SSMS client recently and in one way or another any of my apps that I have written that use the DacFx ScriptDom have all broken in slightly different ways. One app throws a type...
View ArticleBlog Post: Referencing Individual Cell Values From Tables In Power Query
[This blog post is relevant to Power Query in Excel 2010/2013, the Get & Transform tab in Excel 2016, and the Get Data screen in Power BI Desktop. I’m going to use the term ‘Power Query’ in this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Help! I am Locked Out of my SQL Server Instance
Beginning with SQL Server 2008, local administrators are no longer SQL Server sysadmins by default. Microsoft removed this feature in an attempt to increase security. I agree with the change. The...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Election Changes
The 2014 NomCom made some changes to how the election process works and it’s something you need to pay attention to. It was posted on the PASS blog, but not really advertised that much so I want to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Troubleshooting Tempdb, a Case Study
Tackling A Hairy Problem This series includes a number of stand-alone posts which can fit together to tell a bigger story Part One: Types of Performance Metrics Part Two: What’s Going On Inside Tempdb?...
View ArticleBlog Post: Performance Test Your Catastrophes
Tackling A Hairy Problem This series includes a number of stand-alone posts which can fit together to tell a bigger story Part One: Types of Performance Metrics Part Two: What’s Going On Inside Tempdb?...
View ArticleBlog Post: *tap tap tap* Hello World?
Let’s see if I can remember how all of this goes…. Start with a “hello” Insert a picture that hopefully somewhat relates to my blog post and now proceed to the guts of the post. So hi everyone!! I have...
View ArticleBlog Post: Overview of Azure Data Catalog in the Cortana Analytics Suite
Azure Data Catalog is one of the components of the Cortana Analytics Suite . This post is as of September 2015; at this time the Azure Data Catalog is still in public preview so we can expect many...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using @@ROWCOUNT can be a bit tricky
@@ROWCOUNT is a very useful system variable that returns the number of rows read/affected by the previous statement. It’s frequently used in loops and in error handling. TL;DR Store @@ROWCOUNT into a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Storing Event Data
Among the several core concepts of Extended Events is the concept of storing event payloads / data. When an event fires, it would not be far-fetched to want to be able to review that data at some time...
View ArticleBlog Post: Want to speak at the PASS Summit, but haven’t been selected?
The Speaker Idol may be your answer to how to get to the PASS Summit as a speaker. The Speaker Idol competition, in it’s second year now with PASS, will be held throughout the conference with four...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Election Questions Answered
As we continue through the campaign period for this year’s PASS Board of Directors Election (Voting opens tomorrow morning), I want to continue to show our community members the type of board member I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Blogging Update
I wanted to take a moment to give you some updates on a few things related to this blog. First up, you may have noticed things look a bit different here. The blog has been redesigned. In fact, it’s not...
View ArticleBlog Post: Upcoming User Group, Conference And Teaching Dates In Scandinavia,...
I’m going to be doing a lot of speaking at various events over the next few months, and so I thought I would let you know about where I’ll be in case you want to attend. Scandinavia Next week I’m doing...
View ArticleBlog Post: Voting in the PASS Election 2015
Another year, another set of elections. It’s that time where those who care about their industry and the future of the community we work within take to the PASS website to see who has put themselves...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Election Questions Answered 2
Today I am going to continue with my PASS Election Questions and Answers series. Here is where you can find the rest of the series and my campaign landing page. Election Landing Page My Board...
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