Blog Post: How to work around Azure database migration limitations
Microsoft Windows Azure SQL Database, commonly known as SQL Azure, is a relational database in the cloud that is part of the Windows Azure platform. Although Windows Azure SQL Database is built on the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Ways to View Content Published to a Power BI Site
There are multiple ways to view content published to a Power BI site. Four are mentioned below. These screen shots were taken during the Public Preview of Power BI (during which I cleverly called my...
View ArticleForum Post: Using "go" keyword
I want to use the "go" keyword to run 2 queries one after the other so as to save my time in montoring whether the query has got completed or not. Currently I'm using this syntax: select count(*) from...
View ArticleBlog Post: HOW TO: Sysprep with Windows 8.1
Recently, I had to create a custom image and I was pleasantly surprised with the way it turned out. It allowed me to shave 3 hours off an installation, so I could deploy a standard image to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Nine T-SQL best practices
SQL Server databases are the backbone of many enterprise applications, and good Transact-SQL (T-SQL) code is the best way to maximize SQL Server performance. Therefore, it is important for SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Setting up Security on sub sites in SharePoint 2010
A lot of companies have several departments and want to limit the sub sites users can view. For example, the IT department should only see the IT sub site, but the HR department may need to be able to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Implementing Auditing in SQL Server
I have been presenting this session for almost 4 years now and was just emailed that I had not posted the scripts and Power Point on my blog. Sorry for the delay and here it is.
View ArticleBlog Post: Semi-Additive Measures, Unary Operators, Custom Rollups And The...
Last week I was doing some performance tuning on SSAS Multidimensional and saw something very strange: when the MDX Script of the cube was executed (as always happens after the cache has been cleared,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Scalzi’s Law of Cleverness, as applied to resumes
John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) – science fiction writer, Hugo award winner, philosopher, and blogger extraordinaire – has an adage that I wish to formally declare a law, in my power as a rather less...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #62
Monday afternoon and it’s time for weekly round-up. If you follow me on twitter ( @StrateSQL ), you’ll know that throughout most days I tweet out links of things I find interesting. While these...
View ArticleBlog Post: I’m Board
No, really, I’m board. It will be officially announced today, but as of December 11th, I’m the new Director of Program Development for PASSMN, the Minnesota chapter of the Professional Association for...
View ArticleBlog Post: Transactions: Rolling back a transaction
Transactions are great and wonderful things. They make sure that our work stays atomic, consistent, isolated and durable (yes ACID). And if we use an explicit transaction (created by BEGIN...
View ArticleBlog Post: Power Query Preview December Update
Microsoft keep turning out updates to Power Query. For December, some of the new features ( download ): Connection to three more data sources: Sybase IQ, Exchange, and Dynamics CRM Online When using...
View ArticleBlog Post: 'Tis the Season to...Resolve SQL Server Deadlocks with Extended...
In a previous post, we discussed ways that DBAs could more proactively monitor environments and stay ahead of the game—in that case, using SQL Server event notifications to prevent deadlocks. In this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tales from the Engine Room: What’s brewing for Spotlight Freemium...
At PASS in Charlotte this year, we released Spotlight Freemium Monitoring in the form of a SQL Server Management Studio plug-in. We are working on expanding this functionality to make it a more...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server monitoring and optimization
To optimize the performance of your database, you need to monitor and tune. You determine the performance baseline, how SQL Server is currently performing, through monitoring. Your optimization...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2012 دورة تمهيدية شاملة في
الزملاء الأعزاء من العالم! السلام عليكم و رحمه الله و بركاته أقدم لكم دورة تمهيدية شاملة في SQL Server 2012. وتقدم هذه الدورة التدريبية باللغة العربية، وتهدف إلى المساعدة فى التقديم للمفاهيم الأساسية...
View ArticleBlog Post: Parameterization – A quick note on a CSS SQL article
I just finished reading an excellent CSS article, How Simple Parameterization works, which is well written and well worth a look. In short, it outlines a customer performance issue caused by a change...
View ArticleBlog Post: 5 Things Every DBA Needs To Say To A Developer
In case your iCal stopped working with the new iOS update I feel the need to tell you that next week is Christmas here in the USA. I assume it is Christmas in other parts of the world but I’ve never...
View ArticleBlog Post: Active Directory and SQL Server Questions Answered
I presented for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter several weeks ago and talked about different ways that Active Directory can affect your SQL Server. We only had an hour so I had to scale the content back...
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