Blog Post: Availability Group Architecture – Adding a Second Site
Last time, I discussed the simplest Availability Group architecture, with only a single site. In this post I will expand upon the same architecture, adding in a second site to achieve more than just...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Install Microsoft R Server for Windows
Microsoft R Server, or Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as it is formally known for now, is basically a platform for advanced analytics designed to tackle big data statistics, predictive modeling, and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Fixing a storage pool that doesn’t have an read-write server
Recently I was working on a clients file server cluster and while doing some troubleshooting with Microsoft Support one of the clustered disks wouldn’t respond correctly. Now this file server cluster...
View ArticleBlog Post: You’re Probably Taking Sort Order For Granted Somewhere
As many people will point out , you can’t depend on the order of results without using the ORDER BY clause. So it’s easy to say “Simple! Don’t write code that expects unsorted data to be sorted”. But...
View ArticleBlog Post: Blogger questions: What if someone else wrote about the same subject?
I have a moderately popular blog. In part because I syndicate but largely (in my opinion) because I write a lot of posts (twice a week for > 3 years). Over 340 of them in fact. Because of this a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Scaling Azure SQL Database
One of the advantages Azure SQL Database has over on-prem SQL Server is the ease in which it can scale. I’ll discuss the various options for horizontal scaling, vertical scaling, and other similar...
View ArticleBlog Post: Its been a busy start to the year
Its been a busy start to the year at gethynellis.com. I have been involved in a Big Data training courses in Alexandria - a suberb of DC, followed by the same course running again in London a week...
View ArticleBlog Post: New Ways To Concatenate Text In Excel 2016 With CONCAT() And...
I don’t normally blog about Excel topics outside of Power Query and Power Pivot , but I think anyone who has ever done any serious work in Excel has found how difficult it is to concatenate more than...
View ArticleBlog Post: Get Drive Sizes using SQL or PowerShell
There are countless methods to obtain drive size information, each with its own set of benefits and limitations. I use a few different methods depending on if I have to type out the solution quickly or...
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View ArticleBlog Post: DCAC Now Has 2 VMware vExperts
I’m thrilled to report that Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting now has not 1, but 2 VMware vExperts in our ranks. No we didn’t go off and hire another consultant. VMware has decided that this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI/BA and the Lone Three Leaders
History clearly confirms that good things come in threes! As far as I know this is the first time that only the three most widely recognized Business Intelligence platforms have been placed in the...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Database File Size and Free Space Revisited
I recently had a comment posted to one of my first articles I wrote way back in 2012 concerning adding a column that detailed the used space as a %age. So without any further ado, here is an updated...
View ArticleBlog Post: #0373 – SQL Server – Interview Questions – Parameters required for...
For a mid-level SQL developer profile, this is one of my favourite interview questions if their current projects involve some sort of paging mechanism while displaying results on a grid. What is the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Database Log VLFs
Virtual Log Files (VLFs) split a physical database log file into smaller segments, which are required for how log files work in the background. These are created automatically, but automatically...
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL Tuesday #75 Invitation: Jump into Power BI!
Hello everyone and welcome to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s topic is all about Power BI ! If you’re reading this and thinking “crap, I’m not a BI person!”, don’t you fret. My intention is to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Impersonation can give you the wrong answer
I use impersonation all the time to let me see additional permissions information I can only get that way and, sometimes to help me see what permissions error someone is getting. For those of you who...
View ArticleBlog Post: Introduction to SQL Server: The Main Components
There has been much talk recently in the SQL Server community about writing introductory level blog posts. Posts that a new person just starting a career as a data professional using Microsoft's SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Come See Joey or Denny in India at the Tech Mahindra Azure...
Do you want to learn more about Azure, and live in India (or want to travel to India)? Have I got a deal for you. Microsoft is putting on some free workshops next week and the week after in a few...
View ArticleBlog Post: Would you like Microsoft to pay for you to move to Azure?
Have you been wanting to move some of your services up to Azure , but you don’t have the budget to move them up to th e cloud? Microsoft has an excellent deal for you. Microsoft will pay for (at least...
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