Blog Post: Get SQL Server Physical Cores, Physical and Virtual CPUs, and...
Today, I received email from one of my blog follower asking if there is any DMV or SQL script, which he can use to find the following information about the processors that are available to and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Analysing Voting In the Power BI Competition – With Power BI!
As I mentioned the other day, the public voting round of the Power BI competition has now started and the entrants are now competing for a place in the top ten and a whole bunch of cool prizes...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQLSaturday 285 (#sqlsatatl) pre-cons are now live!
SQL Saturday #285 is offering 3 preconference sessions on Friday, May 2 at the GSU campus in Alpharetta, site of SQL Saturday #285 on Saturday, May 3: Kalen Delaney: What the Hekaton!? A Whole New Way...
View ArticleBlog Post: Recruiter Email Fail
Pro Tip: If you’re a recruiter and sending out mass emails about positions you’re trying to fill, do yourself a favor and make sure you’re not accidentally including other things, like a letter of...
View ArticleBlog Post: Generating Concurrent Activity
I’ve discovered that DBAs use different methods to accomplish what amounts to the same thing: Generating concurrent activity on a server. I want to explore a number of methods I’ve seen. For each...
View ArticleBlog Post: Webcast Follow-Up: The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes
Earlier today, I presented a session for Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s titled The Flavors of Non-Clustered Indexes . In the session, I discussed non-clustered indexes and some of the options...
View ArticleBlog Post: What Your SQL Server Metrics Are Telling You...Part 2
Part 2 of a blog post by By Rudy Panigas In this post Rudy discusses the importance of metrics and how you can use them to represent your SQL Server environment, as well as how to collect a metric...
View ArticleBlog Post: PRO TIP: Force table suggestions – Red-Gate SQL Prompt 6
For those SQL Prompt users, like myself, I’m sure you love its table suggestion feature. Unfortunately, there are situations where you open a query window and the table suggestions don’t immediately...
View ArticleComment on Understanding SQL Server Database Restore Process
Kernel for SQL Server Recovery Software is an advanced and smartly programmed application to repair and recover corrupt or deleted SQL Server Database successfully. Go to http://www.sqlrepair.org to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For January 24, 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 Do You Need A Log...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: January 17 to January 23
Photo credit – Mike Lynch A good cure to a creepy doll is a good old post that is still useful. In this post, I’m going back over some of the posts that came out in this week in previous years. Having...
View ArticleBlog Post: It's all about Restoring.
This week, MSSQLtips hosted a webinar in which Edwin Sarmiento (The Pythian Group) and David Gugick (Dell Software) discussed “ Restoring SQL Server Databases…the Options and Steps ”. During this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Does @StrateSQL Need a Unicorn Tattoo?
As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks back , I’ll be jumping into Lake Calhoun in a few weeks as part of the Minnesota Polar Plunge. For this event, they cut a hole in the ice and allow us brave...
View ArticleBlog Post: SS SLUG January 2014 Meet-up Recap
The first SS SLUG meet-up for this year was held at Microsoft Sri Lanka on January 22. We had two sessions on database development and data mining, with 47 attendees in total. Here's a summary of the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Video: Installing Tracetcp, Tcping, WireShark and PortQry
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: PASS BA Conference: Announcing my R and Hadoop session
I'm delighted to announce that I will be presenting at the PASS Business Analytics Conference in May 5 - 7 in San Jose, California. If you are looking for a discount, here is a code to get $150...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSAS Trending KPI
KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) in Analysis Services are a great way to show visually if a measure is trending in right direction based on previous levels. If you want to show a measure has...
View ArticleBlog Post: Negative session_ids
I probably had the most fun all week when a query I was running came up blocked. Sounds strange right? Well the blocking_session_id was a negative 2 (-2)! I’ve never seen anything like it before. Once...
View ArticleBlog Post: Experience Comes from Mistakes
In my opinion the big difference between a Database Administrator (DBA) and a Senior Database Administrator (Sr. DBA), comes down to experience, sounds simple enough right? If we explore that a little...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerShell – Memory Details GUI Tool
This Powershell Memory GUI tool is used to fetch memory information from a computer. In the screen that follows, enter the computer name that you would like to get the memory details for and click on...
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