Blog Post: Navigating easier with the Windows 8.1 Start Menu
Windows 8/Server 2012 changed the way, user interacted with the desktop and safe to say at this point, a lot of people were unhappy with the new design. Personally, I feel it is a shame, because I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Antivirus Exclusion Policy for SQL Server
Anti-virus & SQL Server on one system together are friends not enemies, if configured properly. Anti-virus are very useful programs from security, audit & venerability detection & removal...
View ArticleBlog Post: DAX: Date Calculation Tables
Some time ago, I blogged about using a date calculation dimension in a multidimensional cube , and how easy it makes doing time intelligence in a multidimensional model. 2014 seems to have started out...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why So Serious? – #TSQL2sDAY #53
As a child/pre-teen/teenager/young adult, OK, most of my life, I’ve been labeled as “serious” or “grumpy”. Maybe I deserve it sometimes – when I’m deep in thought or focused on something, I don’t like...
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL Tuesday #53: Why so serious
Why so serious? If you ask anyone who knows me they will tell you I’m not a terribly serious person. Add that to the comment “Mess with your co-workers” and I was hooked on this one. T-SQL Tuesday...
View ArticleBlog Post: A SQL Cmdlet a Day 4 SQLPS
Over the past few days I have posted about working with SQL using PowerShell, introduction , piping , variables , Each one of these posts demonstrated working with a PowerShell session that was...
View ArticleBlog Post: 10 Reasons to Attend #SQLSat Puerto Rio
We are only days away from SQL Saturday #283 in San Juan Puerto Rico !! If you are looking for justification to attend let me help you out. 1. Bradley Ball , twitter , Inside the Query Optimizer...
View ArticleBlog Post: [SQL Snacks Video] SQL Server Table Partitioning 101
I hope you’re hungry for another SQL Snack! In fact, this will be one of a series of snacks (dare I call it a SQL Snack pack?). Table partitioning is a fantastic feature that is easy to learn and can...
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View ArticleBlog Post: Dedicated Administrator Connection
By David Postlethwaite At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some articles on Gethyn’s blog about the bits I didn’t manage to cover. If a SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Setting up an online time capsule for your children, using OneDrive
I've set up an online time capsule for my son, which constitutes all my photos of him and us together. The death of Peaches Geldof prompted me to think about what would happen if/when I die? What...
View ArticleBlog Post: Webcast Follow-Up: Introduction to Clustered Indexes and Heaps
Last month, I presented a session for Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s titled Introduction to Clustered Indexes and Heaps . I’d meant to get the Q&A and session materials posted earlier, but...
View ArticleBlog Post: Alter Table Not Permitted
By David Postlethwaite At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some articles on Gethyn’s blog about the bits I didn’t manage to cover. You may...
View ArticleBlog Post: Rolling back transactions with cursors and local variables.
I’ve been doing some work on a credit card payment system lately. Obviously this needs to be robust and consistent so I’ve been working on error handling and “transactionalising” certain parts of the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Collation: Correction Expression, Column, Database
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: Webcast Follow-Up: Introduction to Columnstore Indexes
Similar to yesterday’s post, I have a follow-up for another Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s session that I delivered last month. This was is titled Introduction to Columnstore Indexes . In the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Huge immediate security threat: which passwords to change NOW
“An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you...
View ArticleBlog Post: First Birthday to My Blog
Today is the First year anniversary of my blog. After thinking a lot and going through many un-imaginable resource available over the internet and reading blogs of many wonderful brains made me think...
View ArticleWiki Page: Editing an SQL Server table in Excel
Anyone who lives in Microsoft Excel every day will get comfortable in that environment. This combined with the increasingly powerful toolset means you will be tempted to use Excel for much more than...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For April 11, 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 Why So Serious? –...
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