Blog Post: The DBA Plate for 2016
Four years ago I wrote about the DBA Plate, which was a reference to the food plate that replaced the food pyramid right about the time the U.S. Congress declared pizza to be a vegetable. I had every...
View ArticleBlog Post: Convert select statements in scripts into Inline-TVF's automatically
In-line TVF's are awesome, they are a great way to reuse T-SQL code without the performance penalties of multi line TVF's or horror of horrors Scalar Functions. Taking select statements and turning...
View ArticleBlog Post: Complete DAX Function Reference
The DAX function reference documentation in MSDN can be found on separate pages, organized by categories but you can’t view all of the functions in one page. If you don’t know exactly what you’re...
View ArticleBlog Post: Statistics Parser
Today I’d like to recommend a free community tool, StatisticsParser.com . Statistics Parser is web-based tool for interpreting the text output of the T-SQL SET STATISTICS IO and TIME settings. The tool...
View ArticleBlog Post: Temporary Post Used For Theme Detection...
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View ArticleBlog Post: UK Contractors - As you were, for now at least
I think there were are few sighs of relief around the country yesterday after the chancellor finished giving his autumn financial statement to parliament. For the past few weeks there has been plenty...
View ArticleBlog Post: New SSAS, Power BI And SQL Server Training Courses For 2016
I’ve just added a number of new 2016 training course dates to the Technitrain site. If you’re looking for Power BI, Analysis Services, SQL Server or Data Science training in London then please check...
View ArticleBlog Post: #0363 – SQL Server – T-SQL Script to generate week date ranges...
Recently, I was asked to help out in implementing a requirement for a reporting application. The application was designed to report weekly consumption trends from the day the report is run, and we...
View ArticleBlog Post: Bitesize SSIS: Passing SSIS variables into script components
I hate SSIS. It seems to me that it is full of certain nuances and unless you are regularly developing SSIS packages, they are easy to forget or it is easy to miss specific important steps. I first...
View ArticleBlog Post: Eight Types of Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCDs)
We typically talks about three SCDs which are Type 1, Type 2 and Type 3. In Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross Third edition of the Data Warehouse Toolkit book, they talked about eight types of SCDs....
View ArticleBlog Post: You should always have an “I got hit by a bus” backup plan
You have an on call, you have a business continuity plan, you have a disaster recovery plan but what happens when your developer, DBA or whoever is hit by a bus? The situation User : Oh noes! The web...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Avoid CXPACKETs?
CXPACKET is one of the famous wait type that database administrators are experiencing. Before moving into the details of CXPACKET wait type, - See more at:...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Identity Values Check
Very few users have any idea how many SQL Server identity values they have remaining on a column. The post SQL Server Identity Values Check appeared first on Thomas LaRock . If you liked this post then...
View ArticleBlog Post: If you fail to plan for your scale, you’ll end up with no workload...
Today is “Cyber Monday”, the artificial “holiday” that stores have decided to create in order to separate customers from their money on the first normal work day of the holiday season. You’d think that...
View ArticleBlog Post: Round a datetime to the nearest minute (or down to the minute)
Last week I was doing a comparison of 2 datetime fields, but I only wanted to do the comparison on the minute level. So I needed something to round the datetime to the nearest minute or down to the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Querying the Plan Cache
I love working with indexes, and I need to know what’s using them to work on them intelligently. Most of that information is already there waiting for you to query it. Luckily, Jonathan Kehayias (b|t)...
View ArticleBlog Post: #BigData is coming; what should SQL Server people do about it?
I’ve been presenting a lot on Big Data (specifically Hadoop) from the perspective of a SQL Server DBA, and I’ve made a couple of recent observations. I think most people are aware of the fact that...
View ArticleBlog Post: Storage options on Azure
Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform and infrastructure, created by Microsoft, for building, deploying and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed and...
View ArticleBlog Post: What You Are Missing by Sticking with SQL Server 2005: Data...
On 12 April 2011 it was Yuri’s Night — the night we space fans celebrate Yuri Gagarin’s 1961 history-setting flight into space. We were celebrating 50 years of manned spaceflight. On that same day in...
View ArticleBlog Post: High Availability and Disaster Recovery Training in Austin
I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #461 in Austin on January 29th, 2016 titled “Creating a High Availability and Disaster Recovery Plan” . If you are in the area or thinking of attending this...
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