Blog Post: Mainstream Support Ending Soon || SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server...
Microsoft declares to release last & final service packs for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 very soon. Mainstream Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 about to end on July...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 (SP2) RTM Is Now Available !
SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 (SP2) RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Service Pack 2 contains all the hotfixes released since the initial release of SQL Server 2012...
View ArticleBlog Post: Happy Anniversary!
Today, http://mssqlfun.com/ completed 2 precious years with your support & acknowledgment. It’s wonderful time enriched with fun & learning. Please keep liking us & providing your feedback...
View ArticleBlog Post: Spring may be long gone but you still need to clean up MSDB
System databases are often neglected, part of this is due to Microsoft’s message of SQL Server will run and look after itself. In fairness it does to a certain extent (no, that’s not a pun), it’s...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server DBAs – Steps for a Panic Free Summer
While many of your colleagues are putting in vacation requests and cutting out early every Friday to soak up summer rays, it may seem like as a DBA you never get a break. It true, since most mission...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For June 13, 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: Information Technology: Minimum requirements
I’ve been asked, several times, what skills a person should work on if they wanted to enter the IT field. The specific question changes depending upon if the question was targeted at DBA, developer,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: June 6 to June 12
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: SQL Server 2012 SP2 released
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP2 is now available Build number: 11.0.5058.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2012 service packs are cumulative updates and upgrade all editions and service levels of SQL Server 2012...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSAS Multidimensional Formula Engine Caching and Locale-Dependent...
One subject I have blogged about many times here is how the use of certain MDX functions and features prevents the Formula Engine from caching the result of a calculation for longer than the lifetime...
View ArticleBlog Post: ColumnStore Indexe with SQL Server 2012 & 2014
ColumnStore Indexes (Run By Microsoft’s VertiPaq technology) as described by BOL ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-IN/library/gg492088(v=sql.110).aspx) : “An xVelocity memory optimized ColumnStore index...
View ArticleBlog Post: I don’t want to grant permission to all the tables in the database...
A couple of weeks ago I did a post on granting or denying permissions to all the tables within a database . However sometimes you don’t want to grant permissions to the whole database at once. This is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #88
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: Don’t feed the monkeys 3 ways to help people solve their own problems
I have struggled to learn how to stop feeding the monkeys for quite some time. I’m happy to see that commitment is being listed as a major factor here. I find lack of commitment to be far more common...
View ArticleBlog Post: Estimating Memory Requirements in SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2014 has a lot of shiny new features. One of the brightest is In-Memory OLTP Hekaton, something I have been optimistic about (get the pun?) ever since I saw it at the PASS Summit in 2012 ....
View ArticleBlog Post: Kerberos Configuration Manager’s Nasty Bug
The Kerberos Configuration Manager is a really handy tool that can make configuring Kerberos a much easier task, but it’s got a nasty little bug. Configuring Kerberos can be tricky. In what way you...
View ArticleForum Post: Automated conversion from T-SQL To Ansi SQL?
Is there an automated tool to convert from Microsoft SQL Server T-SQL to a different ANSI format (Neteeza, Teradata, Greenplum, Hana)? If so, what is the product name and is there a training video?...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Create a Q&A Featured Question with a Custom Image in Power BI
In Power BI, the Q&A Natural Language (Bing-like search) capability is pretty cool for being able to render Power View visualizations in the browser "on the fly" quickly. I admit when Q&A was...
View ArticleComment on Central Management Server
Where can I find the associated video? I find that link is broken.
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft’s Lousy Response to a Connect Issue
I’ve been going through the process of upgrading from SQL Server 2012 to SQL Server 2014 and I’ve hit a bug when running snapshots. Any snapshot that was in place from SQL Server 2012 cannot be...
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