Blog Post: SSAS Tabular: Internal Physical Files
SSAS Tabular stores data mostly in memory. However, it still consists of two main engines to drive and respond to user queries, the formula engine and the storage engine. This, theoretically, is very...
View ArticleBlog Post: Clustered Columnstore Index Catalog Views Split By Partition
If you are using partitions with the new Clustered Columnstore Indexes then it’s helpful to know the number of dictionaries/segments each partition has. This is because partitions have their...
View ArticleBlog Post: Grant View Server State
There are lots of Dynamic Management Objects (DMO’s, more commonly referred to generically as DMV’s) that require extra permissions. Without having these permissions there are a number of diagnostic...
View ArticleBlog Post: Book: Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012
I am happy to say I have published my first book! It is called Reporting with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 ( order ). Much thanks goes to my co-author and friend Bill Anton . Below is a brief overview...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Manage Complex Database Environments like a Boss
Similar to almost any job role detrimental to the productivity and efficiency of an organization, the life of a DBA is without a doubt stressful. Managing the database and the corresponding DBA team...
View ArticleBlog Post: Collation: Expression
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read I started to realize that for a seemingly simple subject there was a lot to it. So I thought I would...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Saturday Oklahoma City precon: Becoming an Enterprise DBA
We’ll be at OKC this summer for their SQL Saturday on August 23, and we’re presenting our precon “Becoming an Enterprise DBA” August 22!. Get your early bird ticket by July 15, and save over 15%!...
View ArticleBlog Post: Working with Web Services in Power Query
One of many cool things about Power Query is the way that it allows you to retrieve data from web services and load it into Excel. While this is a subject that lots of people (including me ) have...
View ArticleBlog Post: Usar o xp_logininfo
Em alguns casos nos deparamos com logins estranhos nos servidores SQL. Uma coisa que deixa qualquer DBA feliz da vida (#SQN) é encontrar um grupo de Windows dentro com permissões dentro do SQL, mais...
View ArticleBlog Post: Organizing a Power BI Site
There's several important differences between a site set up in Power BI for Office 365 (SharePoint Online) vs. a Power Pivot Gallery in SharePoint on-premises. One key difference I want to focus on...
View ArticleBlog Post: Shout out for my favourite Power BI MSDN and TechNet blogs this month
I wanted to call out some of our favourite TechNet and MSDN blogs posted about Excel, Power BI, Office365 and Azure over the past month. These links are a great place to get started if you want to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Quick Tip: Migrating a SQL Server Mirroring Witness server.
If you’re like me, you might be thinking “I want some more things to think about when I migrate between SQL Servers.” … No? Okay, fair enough. There’s a whole list of things to think about when...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSIS Do I Union All or Merge??
The Union All and Merge SSIS data flow transformations provide confusingly similar functionality by combining result sets. So what are the differences and when should you use one of the other?...
View ArticleBlog Post: Watch Microsoft Build 2014 Conference Keynote online
Microsoft’s developer conference, Microsoft build developer conference 2014, is sold out. But you can still watch it online and immerse yourself in what’s next for the Microsoft platform and tools....
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For March 28, 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 Cheating DBCC To Fix...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: March 21 to March 27
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years, I’ve written a few things that are worth a revisit from time to time. In this post, you’ll...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft's HDInsightand PowerBI with a focus on data from Denmark!
In this fun session at SQLSaturday Denmark , we will use Microsoft's HDInsight, their Big Data solution, and PowerBI tools to learn about Denmark! We will mix and mashup data from a variety of...
View ArticleBlog Post: A Few Things I Didn’t Know Last Week
That it is possible to have a Victorian house built in the 1930′s : I’m in the process of buying a new house, and one I saw listed was Victorian terraced. When I viewed the property I wasn’t too...
View ArticleBlog Post: Types of MSSQL Joins
In Microsoft SQL Server, we have four types of joins . We use these joins to fetch data from multiple tables that are based on a condition. A join condition is a relationship among some columns in the...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSIS Web Service Task
The Web Service task in SSIS can be used to call a web service command to perform a needed operation in your package. The results of most web services will be in XML Format. You can save these results...
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