Forum Post: Email Converter for all Email clients
Email Converter software to works on both the formats of Apple Mail (MBOX and EMLX) to convert the mail database to Outlook 2011 .RGE file format. This enables you to migrate from your native Apple...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS BA Visual Data Storytelling precon session with Mico Yuk
CEO of BI Brainz | Author | Global Keynote Speaker | BI Influencer | Trainer | Blogger| BI Executive Advisor *@ micoyuk * I am super excited that Mico Yuk is joining us again at PASS BA Conference!...
View ArticleBlog Post: TSQL Tuesday #75 Round Up Redux
Okay so I already posted a round up post for this month . You can see it here. Tonight one of the participants, Rob Farley ( Blog | Twitter ) made me aware of the fact that I missed a HUGE opportunity...
View ArticleBlog Post: Powershell script to create multiple SQL Server Connections
As with most of these types of things, I had a need. I want to show how using sys.dm_exec_[ requests / sessions / connections ] is better than sp_who. Particularly when you have a large number of...
View ArticleBlog Post: HP Superdome X for high-end OLTP/DW
No, Superdome X is not the name of the stadium where they played in the last Super Bowl. Rather, Superdome X is HP’s top of the line server running Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014. It can...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL – List Server and DB Permsission
Database Level Permission DECLARE @ DBuser_sql VARCHAR ( 4000 ) DECLARE @ DBuser_table TABLE ( DBName VARCHAR ( 200 ), UserName VARCHAR ( 250 ), LoginType VARCHAR ( 500 ), AssociatedDatabaseRole...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to make SSMS beep when a query is done?
The other day I’m sitting at my computer, and this comes across Twitter. Well the good news is that there’s no need to develop anything. SQL Server Management Studio can already do this for you. Simply...
View ArticleBlog Post: Well that’s just neat: Row Level Security, new in SQL Server 2016
SQL Server 2016 offers Row Level Security, which sounds awfully cool. It’s apparently been available in Azure for a while, but the on-prem version is getting it, now. Securing Rows Okay, so: row level...
View ArticleBlog Post: Look at Blocked Process Reports Collected With Extended Events
SQL Server Concurrency Part One: Future Proofing for Concurrency Part Two: Look at Blocked Process Reports Collected With Extended Events Part Three I just met a friend at a SQL Saturday who let me...
View ArticleBlog Post: Fix a Network Binding Order Warning
Network Binding Order Warning One of the more common errors I see when setting up a Windows cluster (usually in preparation for a SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance or a SQL Server Availability...
View ArticleBlog Post: Finding All Selected Items In A Slicer In Excel 2016 Using TextJoin()
When you are using slicers with an Excel PivotTable it’s often useful to be able to get a comma-delimited list of the items selected in that slicer for use in a report title. It’s not easy to do...
View ArticleForum Post: How to Split a a single Date into potentially hundreds of new...
Hello, I am trying to create a stored proc that will capture already harvested SQL Server Agent Job information. Some of the key data incldues SQL Server Agent Job start time, and duration in minutes....
View ArticleBlog Post: My favourite wait state– ASYNC_NETWORK_IO
Sometimes it does feel that a problem is a database problem until proven otherwise. When this does occur I have had to put a lot of time and effort into demonstrating the hows and whys. One of the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Article Series: Power BI Solutions for the Enterprise
I’m working on a series of articles about creating enterprise solutions with Power BI and the first article was published this past week in SQL Server Pro Magazine. I will republish the completed...
View ArticleForum Post: existing tables in sql server mnagaement studio not visible in...
Hi after a while working with toad, suddenly the tables from my db are not visible in the object explorer while in the management studio they are and running fine, any idea? tried pc reset delete and...
View ArticleBlog Post: I/O Baseline Comparison – Idera Diagnostic Manager
What servers need the most attention when it comes to I/O? When I increase the memory on a server what effect does it have on I/O? What was it before the change and what was it afterwards? These are...
View ArticleBlog Post: Blogger questions: How often should I blog?
What with the #sqlnewblogger effort we’ve been seeing a lot of new bloggers (and some old ones starting up again) and there is one thing that seems to come up over and over again. How often should I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using the new Azure Dashboard favourites and tiles
The new Azure Portal represents a huge improvement over the old Classic Azure Portal in terms of User eXperience and performance. If you were used to the old portal you’ll most probably have got to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Presenting at SQL Saturday Madison 2016!
Thank you so much to the wonderful organizing committee of SQL Saturday Madison 2016 for selecting me to present! I’m a huge fan of Madison – it’s a great city that’s not-too-terribly far from my...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerShell – Backup Individual database and delete all it’s...
Problem Statement The requirement is to backup individual database and after successful backup the script should retain the most recent file and delete the rest from a directory for that specific...
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