Blog Post: Differential Backups, Differential Terms
Backup or dump, which do you prefer to take? I have often referred to a database backup as a database dump . The reason for this goes back to an event that happened many years ago where the database...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How to Convert and Export Outlook Emails to EML Formats
To convert Outlook PST file to EML format, I would like to suggest you SysInfoTools Email Converter software. It will help you convert your Outlook .pst file into EML format without causing any...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Training Classes in Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego
We’re excited to announce our 2014 training class schedule! We’re coming to Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Diego to teach these two classes: How to Be a Senior DBA For the last couple of years, you’ve...
View ArticleBlog Post: Security Questions: Server Role Tips
As I mentioned in the introductory post , during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s , I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t...
View ArticleBlog Post: I’ll take “Products that start with Power”, Alex
FYI: Geoflow (see Geoflow Preview for Excel 2013 ) is now called Power Map , and Data Explorer (see Microsoft Data Explorer ) is now called Power Query . Microsoft Power Query for Excel has reached...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerShell – Get CPU Details and its Usage
This PowerShell script helpful in finding No of Processors, Speed and It’s current usage based on samples being gathered at frequent intervals. /* Get No of Processors,Speed and its usage*/ Function...
View ArticleBlog Post: Easily access, prepare, analyze, and share data from any source
Only Toad Business Intelligence Suite allows you to easily access, prepare, analyze and share data from any source, including SQL Server, Excel, Access, Azure, Microsoft Analysis Services, or even...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: July 5 to July 11
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information that I need to solve a problem or answer a question. It’s that whole “cha-ching” – buried treasure!...
View ArticleBlog Post: Security Questions: Removing Logins From Databases
As I mentioned in the introductory post , during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s , I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t...
View ArticleBlog Post: Security Questions: Difference Between db_datawriter and db_ddladmin?
As I mentioned in the introductory post , during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s , I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t...
View ArticleBlog Post: DAX: Returning the Nth Selected Value
A client came to me with a challenge this week that, although simple in concept, posed an interesting challenge that I hadn’t solved before using a tabular model and DAX. She had cost information for...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Database Backups and Recovery Models – (Part 3)
Checkout the part-3 of my three part article series on SQL Server Database Backups and Recovery Models here , in which I discussed how you can use BACKUP DATABASE and BACKUP LOG command to perform...
View ArticleBlog Post: Understanding SQL Server Database Restore Process
Data is a critical asset for an organization to keep information about their customers, inventory, products, purchasing, and financial stocks. It is our responsibility as a database administrator...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft SQL Server security best practices checklist
SQL Server is a repository of sensitive information for organizations, and that is why it is important to ensure that only authorized users have access to this sensitive information. However, securing...
View ArticleBlog Post: Understanding SQL Server Query Optimization Statistics
SQL Server query optimizer uses statistics to create query plans that improve query performance. For most queries, the query optimizer already generates the necessary statistics for a high quality...
View ArticleBlog Post: Guide to SQL Server Table Indexes (Part 1)
One of the most important tasks for every database administrator (DBA) is to ensure that query times are consistent with service-level agreement (SLAs) or within user expectations. One of the most...
View ArticleForum Post: Basic Count, Sum, and Division script getting error
Hi. Using TAOD Data Point. I am getting an error:"Incorrect syntax near "CAST" expected "AS". Here is the script: SELECT COUNT(*) AS TotalCount ,SUM("TRUE Flag") AS CountOfOnes ,(COUNT(*) - SUM("TRUE...
View ArticleBlog Post: My Advice About Growing as an IT and Data Professional
First off, I should apologize for not blogging in quite a while. I’ve been traveling extensively and, because traveling can be so exhausting, I usually have to queue up blog posts to hit while I’m...
View ArticleBlog Post: Upgrading SQL Server with Replication
Recently I had to create an upgrade plan for a company with 50+ SQL Servers with replication, both transactional and merge, spider-webbed between most of them. In the past I’ve upgraded SQL Server...
View ArticleBlog Post: Eating the elephant one bite at a time: creating a database using...
Following on from the first part in my Hadoop series for the Microsoft Business Intelligence professional, we move to the next stage where we look at the simplicity of creating a database. Before we...
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