Blog Post: Does your User Group need a free WordPress hosting platform?
Is your user group currently hosting their website that isn’t giving you the features that you need? Is your user group currently paying to much (or anything) for your website? Would your user group to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Are You Programming In The Database?
Typically, T-SQL is not the best platform for programming (understatement). If you have many procedures that call other procedures, that’s a signal that you might be programming in the database. Find...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Create a Demo/Test Environment for Azure Data Catalog
Azure Data Catalog is a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering in Azure, part of the Cortana Intelligence Suite, for registering metadata about data sources. Check this post for an overview of Azure...
View ArticleBlog Post: Setting up powershell remote sessions
Hey guys, differing from usual this is a quick post on setting up powershell remote sessions. I know you can remotely connect to powershell sessions using the Server Manager that comes with Windows...
View ArticleBlog Post: Can’t RDP to Azure VM?
I ran into an interesting problem early this month. I was spinning up an Azure VM with SQL Server 2016 RC0 on it. For testing purposes. Looking at Stretch databases a new feature in SQL Server 2016 I...
View ArticleBlog Post: My First PASS Board Meeting
Let me start off with a disclaimer that these thoughts on the January PASS board meeting are my own as I do not speak on behalf of PASS. I have been on the PASS Board of Directors for about 4 months...
View ArticleBlog Post: Easy SQL mistakes: Accidental Correlated Subquery
Just a fun note, because it was a moment of pure puzzlement for me. I’m writing a new SP for Minion Backup (you knew it had to be Minion related, didn’t you?) and I just got the oddest error. Here’s...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Service Broker – Error Handling
This post is part of a series on this blog that will explore SQL Server Service Broker, a native messaging and queueing technology built into the SQL Server Database Engine. Previous posts: SQL Server...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2016: What’s the best new feature?
With SQL 2016 around the corner, and my blog without a post this year, I thought I would write about some of the new features. However, I’m not sure which feature I like the most to talk about! So I’m...
View ArticleBlog Post: Stopping your SQL Server Job
Maintenance in General is a necessity for SQL Server. No different than changing the oil in your car or going to the Doctor for the annual exam. There is going to be times when you are going to need...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2016 Business Intelligence and Dataviz Masterclass
Join me in Edinburgh on 10th June for a one day Masterclass in SQL Server 2016 Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation! You’ll get takeaway notes and experience hands-on labs that focus on:...
View ArticleBlog Post: MongoDB : How to get Top, Bottom,Middle and Range of records
In MongoDB,the limit() method is used to limit the result set to be returned. You can also use this with various methods such as sort() and skip() for various combination of requirement. The MS SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Timing your SQL Server Maintenance Jobs
Maintenance in General is a necessity for SQL Server. No different than changing the oil in your car or going to the Doctor for the annual exam. There is going to be times when you are going to need...
View ArticleBlog Post: Understanding the configuration file order for Wyse Thin Clients
Problem In an earlier article , I went over how you can configure your system to use a FTP server with DHCP option tags to automatically configure the device. Today, I am going to go over these...
View ArticleBlog Post: PolyBase: I now Pronounce you SQL and Hadoop
Are you interested in Hadoop? With SQL Server 2016 just around the corner, a powerful new feature is being included called PolyBase. To summarize what it is, just think about it as a marriage between...
View ArticleBlog Post: Differences between data types between SQL Server and Oracle
Recently there has been some talk online about how SQL Server processes data type conversions compared to how Oracle’s method for type conversion. I figured that I would clear up some of the confusion...
View ArticleBlog Post: You Can’t Force Query Plans If They Use TVPs With PKs
Have you ever played “Fortunately/Unfortunately”? It’s a game where players alternately give good news and bad news. It goes something like this: Databases such as SQL Server make it easy to retrieve...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Server Draft
If you were given the chance to build the ultimate server, what would you draft first? The post The Server Draft appeared first on Thomas LaRock . If you liked this post then consider subscribing to...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Server Draft
If you were given the chance to build the ultimate server, what would you draft first? The post The Server Draft appeared first on Thomas LaRock . If you liked this post then consider subscribing to...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerSehll : How to suppress the table heading and remove the...
There are a multiple ways to suppress and remove the first line from text file. The first scenario would be writing a suppressed heading to an output text file Or after writing, we can remove the line...
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