Blog Post: Friday Followup For February 7, 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 If You’re Not Doing...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: January 31 to February 6
Photo credit – Travis Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time to dig out some old posts and find out if there are any undiscovered...
View ArticleBlog Post: Top 10 Process Listing By Memory Consumption – GUI Tool
This Powershell Top 10 Process memory consumption GUI tool is used to fetch memory information of each process of a given computer. In the screen that follows, enter the computer name that you would...
View ArticleBlog Post: Democratization of Data: from Thoughts to Decisions presentation...
I’m proud to be speaking at the SQLKonferenze in Germany. It’s a very special event: 10 years of PASS in Germany! I am doing two things: I'm giving a brief talk during the opening session on Monday...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSRS – Creating Drill Through reports with MDX
If you are reporting from a Cube in SSRS and you want to drill through to another report you can set up actions just like any other drill through except one small change. The parameter you pass to the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Enabling Data Compression – February 2014 Update
Blog reader cp spotted a pretty big bug in the last version of this routine. Namely, non-clustered indexes were being flagged as no longer present and were therefore not being compressed. This was...
View ArticleBlog Post: Check your SQL Agent history settings before it’s too late!
A little while back I was doing some research into a failed job and ran into a slight problem. The Agent history settings were such that I was only seeing the last 2-3 runs of the job. This job is run...
View ArticleBlog Post: Winning From Within: a book review and a new attitude
See that guy there? He’s not winning. This picture was taken in July of 2013, and at that exact moment, that guy was not winning that race. He was also not winning at work. He was not winning as a...
View ArticleBlog Post: What’s the CPU usage on the server? Use #Powershell!!
We have here an easy, handy-dandy way to find out how much CPU is in use on your server. Of course you can find out by opening up task manager, or by running perfmon, but that’s not really the point....
View ArticleBlog Post: Growing It At Home: Building Your Own Tools
Short On Money? Sometimes that is the motivation. Maybe the tool you want doesn’t really exist yet? For me it was those things and the joy of building something useful. I’ve built dozens if not...
View ArticleBlog Post: One Preparation that makes SSMS Crash Dumps Easy to Survive
Uh oh! So you’re plugging along in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) when it suddenly goes belly up. Now you’re staring at various dialog boxes telling you that SSMS crashed. Usually the first...
View ArticleBlog Post: Configure Kerberos for SQL with Virtual Accounts
At a conference recently I had someone ask how they would configure Kerberos for accounts that look like “NT Service\MSSQLServer” or “NT Service\MSSQL$MyInstance”. Please note that these are NOT the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Power BI for Office 365 now available!
Microsoft has announced today the general availability of Power BI for Office 365 ! Microsoft describes it as: Power BI for Office 365 is a complete self-service Business Intelligence (BI) solution...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server – Using Tools to Analyze SQL Server Query Performance
Here is the session I gave for the techies at Microsoft about in-built tools available in SQL Server to analyze a query performance. This is a bit lengthy, but covers ALL out of the box tools in SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #70
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” ( so exciting ), follow me on twitter ( @StrateSQL ). And see these throughout the day as I tweet out...
View ArticleBlog Post: Read your old CHM files from network storage on Windows 8
I was just recently going through my old SQL Server documents and reference material and attempting to organize and tidy things up, when I re-discovered a huge collection of literature that even now...
View ArticleBlog Post: [SQL Snacks Video] The What, Why, and How of Instant File...
Instant File Initialization (IFI) is an interesting topic with regards to how SQL Server works with storage. It is an easy feature to turn on and can improve the performance of your server;...
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL Tuesday #51: Doubledown disaster
Jason Brimhall is hosting the 51st T-SQL Tuesday this month with “Place your bets!. It’s always a gamble when buying a new piece of software. You pay your money, you throw the dice and you hope that...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using Row_Number to pick the correct entry.
There have been numerous occasions where I have to pick a one of two records out of a given result set, but how I determine which one has some unique rules. I have two examples of this and I show how...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSAS: DistinctCount
As I’m sure all experienced SSAS developers have noticed, when you create distinct count measures in SSAS multidimensional, you are required to create a separate measure group in order to let Analysis...
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