Blog Post: Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts
This post is part of the series: “Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts” which are excerpts for my Wrox Press book: Professional SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services and Mobile Reports. Each of the...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed –...
SQL Server troubleshooting topics seem to be the most searched for in this blog. In continuation to this, blog for today is also inspired with one such error message. Some time back I have written...
View ArticleBlog Post: #0399 – SQL Server – SSIS – Debugging – Exploring the Data Viewer
Because SSIS packages are explored and edited visually, debugging them at runtime needs the use of visual tools within the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). One such tool is the Data Viewer which allows...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using Extended Events Telemetry Session
You are probably wondering what this is, quite honestly I was wondering too. Well it is an extended events session known as telemetry_xevents that is shipped with SQL Server 2016. This is not the same...
View ArticleBlog Post: Monday Coffee 2017-01-23
I like to think of myself as a fairly hardworking, motivated person. However I recently met someone who regularly gets up at 5am, works a 12 hour day and then (somehow) works out in the evening. They...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server – When to Use a Sledgehammer and When to use a Screwdriver
Some organizations use SQL Server Always On Availability Groups to help boost performance of applications where the users are geographically dispersed. They accomplish this by placing the secondary...
View ArticleBlog Post: 5 Characteristics Every Leader Should Practice
The word leadership has many synonyms attributed to it. Something that can be learned early on in one’s career is that having a leader you can trust is very important. Trust is something that is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Porn Mode is really handy for Azure
Working in Azure means mastering Private Browsing (aka. Porn Mode). This is especially true if you have multiple Azure Active Directory accounts (or at least several Microsoft Live accounts) that you...
View ArticleBlog Post: Join Me at SQL Konferenz 2017
I will be presenting at SQL Konferenz in Darmstadt, Germany next month. If you are in, or near, Darmstadt in February I hope you take the time to join us at SQL Konferenz! The post Join Me at SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Interactive query experience for SQL databases
This is a new feature where you can issue TSQL commands via a TSQL editor straight from the Azure portal, why this is great is because sometimes you do not want to keep switching between your SSMS (SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Compare column names for case sensitivity
I’m reviewing the code for the upcoming Minion CheckDB, and one of the things we’re checking for is case consistency in column names. For example, if Table1 has a column named Col1, and Table2 has...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Using dm_db_stats_properties With InMemory OLTP Tables
The whole concept of InMemory OLTP has been around for a while and still there are areas that I try to go back to learn every single time. If you are new to InMemory OLTP, I would highly recommend...
View ArticleBlog Post: Expert Interview Series: IT Consultant Denny Cherry on the Cloud...
Recently I was interviewed for ReachForce.com’s Expert Interview Series on the impact of the Cloud and how it’s been impacting IT. Check out the interview and see my thoughts on the cloud and IT. Denny...
View ArticleBlog Post: Data Acumen – Analytics Literacy in a Data-Driven world
I am sharing this blog by Richard Lee The video of his interview is below. I agree that data literacy has to be part of any leadership conversation. We talk about data in terms of technology, and this...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – SQL Installation fails with error code 0x851A001A –...
One of my client was trying to deploy his product on their test servers. They found that the SQL Server installation was failing with below error. Let us learn about error Wait on the Database Engine...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Script level upgrade for database master failed –...
Of late, I have been contacted by few clients who have been facing issues with SQL startup failure after applying patch to SQL Server instance. This blog is an outcome of one such assistance provided....
View ArticleBlog Post: Find All Queries with Implict Conversion in SQL Server – Interview...
Question: How do I find out how many queries have an Implict Conversion in SQL Server? Answer: The source of this question is very interesting. However, we discuss that, let us first see the query. --...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL SERVER – Understanding JSON NULL Value Using STRICT Keyword
Playing around with the new capability of SQL Server 2016 has been a fun journey. Even after a year, the discovery keeps happening every single day that I work with it. When I wrote the post around...
View ArticleBlog Post: Monday Coffee 2017-01-30
Wow, what a week last week was. The biggest thing that happened was that I got a session at SQL Saturday Iceland ! They had loads of submissions and could only pick around 20 so very chuffed to have...
View ArticleBlog Post: The 5 Deadly Data Management Sins
So, while the world’s collective media shine a light on the never-ending list of security breaches, I suggest that there are actually more common, and dare I say, even bigger threats that data...
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