Forum Post: ALTER TABLE SWITCH
Hi I'm having issues with ALTER TABLE SWITCH between a staging table and a target table which is schema-bound to an indexed view. When I issue the SWITCH statement, e.g ALTER TABLE...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Saturday Coming Back to Chicago in 2014!
This year Chicago will be hosting it’s 5th SQL Saturday! SQL Saturday #291: Chicago 2014 is now open for registration! As always, the event itself is free. An optional lunch will be provided for...
View ArticleBlog Post: Change Sometimes Is A Good Thing
The past several weeks I have started to take inventory. Every Data Professional should do this whether it is a bi-monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Technically what comes to my mind is backups, security...
View ArticleBlog Post: Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse Assessment
When I am tasked to do a business intelligence or data warehouse assessment, the steps I take to do that depend on the amount of time and the number of people I have. The result of the assessment...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Backup and Recovery: Instant File Initialization
When we refer to recovery, we are not talking about the economic recovery that we are in the midst of now. In this post, we will talk about a way to speed SQL Server Recovery and how to leverage...
View ArticleBlog Post: That Awkward Moment When I Started Channeling Brent Ozar
If you read my end-of-year post (you did, right?), you’ll recall that I mentioned that 2013 was a tough year for me. I’ve (the whole team actually) been stressed, unhappy, and just generally miserable...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For January 10, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re not doing any real work anyway. Posts That Were Popular This Week That Awkward Moment...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Agent Monitoring – Long Running Job Queries
The SQL Server alert system does a great job of handling notifications for SQL Agent job failures but if want to know if a job is hung, taking longer than expected, or maybe it’s disabled and hasn’t...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSRS – Identify a scheduled SSRS Report
Initiating subscription is a tedious task in SQL Server Reporting Services. Each subscription in Reporting Services is setup as a SQL Server Agent job, but the job names are Unique Identifier its hard...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: January 3 to January 9
Photo credit – JStove Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have them come back around every not and then. This connection might not make that much sense,...
View ArticleBlog Post: The DBA That Practices Database Restores
We are often told that we need to practice our restores. And it might not be obvious, but the reason is so that you remain cool, calm, and collected, like this grandma, in the face of adversity. You...
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL – Monitoring DiskSpace of Multiple Servers
This post talks about step by step approach to capture the disk space using T-SQL. This is a request from one of SQL enthusiast. The requirement is to do with T-SQL to monitor disk space of remote...
View ArticleBlog Post: Applied SQL: Find and replace using regular expressions in SSMS
Regular expressions are searches on steroids, the wildcats of the wildcard world*. Even if you never ever write CLR, regex (as it’s affectionately known) can be useful to you today, right now. Open a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Simple Merging Of PDF Documents with iTextSharp 5.4.5.0
As we were working on our first SQL Saturday in Slovenia, we came to a point when we had to print out the so-called SpeedPASS's for attendees. This SpeedPASS file is a PDF and contains thier raffle,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Watch out for SQL Server 2012 licensing pitfalls
Licensing is litte puzzling with all the technologies like virtualization and cloud around. This article should give us some what understanding about licensing....
View ArticleBlog Post: Comparing Tables In Power Query
An interesting Power Query nugget for you: you can compare two tables using the Value.Equals() function. For example, take the following worksheet with five Excel tables on it: The following Power...
View ArticleBlog Post: Meteorite Findings Analysis with PowerBI
Power BI Demo Contest Be quick, it closes on 15th January! My entry is above, and you can enter from here: powerbicontest.com • Use Excel with Power BI for Office 365 to discover data, visualize...
View ArticleBlog Post: Resources to Study for Exam 70-461
Exam 70-461 is the SQL Server 2012 Querying exam. There's some aspects of T-SQL that I've not used at all like XML, and certainly a few that I will want to brush up on before heading to this exam....
View ArticleBlog Post: Video: Name Resolution and Port Queries
The information provided in this video is meant as a tutorial. It is not the final word on security or setup for your particular case. In Simpler terms: USE at your own risk. That said, I hope it...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSAS – Using the Euro or Pound currency Symbol in a measure Format...
If you have a set of measures and some of them are US dollars, some are Euros, and some are UK Pounds, you want to format them correctly in SSAS. First you will need to know the ASCII command to type...
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