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Blog Post: Aliasing a SQL Server: When it works, when it doesn’t and when it...

Creating an alias for a SQL Server is fairly easy and there are several ways to do it. Configuration Manager is my personal favorite. Open up configuration manager and select the SQL Native Client xx...

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Blog Post: View, Pugh, Barney McGrew…

…Cuthbert, Dibble, Grub. I never ceases to amaze me that there is always that little bit of SQL Server functionality that you didn’t know about. Some of it good and some of it bad, some of it just meh…...

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Blog Post: Webcast Preview – Subquery Best Practices Featuring SQL Superhero...

Wonder what it would be like to be a superhero? Thomas Muller can tell you. Muller is a German footballer who plays for the German national team and is competing for the World Cup. ESPN said the World...

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Blog Post: Broken ownership chain – Dynamic SQL

Today I had a co-worker come to my desk wondering why his service was getting a permissions error when selecting from a table. His confusion was rooted in the fact that his service has been using this...

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Blog Post: PASS BA Conference 2014: Sessions Recordings Now Available

All PASS Business Analytics Conference 2014 recordings are now available.  If you purchased the online sessions, to view,  log on to your myPASS account, enter your activation code, and watch the...

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Blog Post: The tides of change

“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” -Deepak Chopra This quote has always stood out to me, but bears a special meaning right now. Recently, I’ve accepted a position with an IT Consulting company...

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Blog Post: Using Slicer Selections In The CubeSet Function

I had an interesting challenge from a customer yesterday – one of those problems that I’d known about for a long time but never got round to working out the solution for… Consider the following...

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Blog Post: Friday Followup For June 20, 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 Don’t Get Slimed By...

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Blog Post: Reblog: June 13 to June 19

Photo credit – Husso I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information that I need to solve a problem or answer a question. It’s that whole “cha-ching”...

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Blog Post: What Type of Self-Service BI Culture Do You Wish to Cultivate?

My latest contribution to the BlueGranite team blog is titled What Type of Self-Service BI Culture Do You Wish to Cultivate?   Please check it out!  

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Blog Post: Lesson learnt – changing the root drive for SQL Server cluster...

Playing around with your live SQL Server cluster is always something to be extra careful with. Especially when you have to remove some old storage from your Windows Cluster group...

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Blog Post: Note to Self: A roundup of the latest Azure blog posts and...

Here is a roundup of Azure blogs and whitepapers which I will be reading this month. This is the latest as at June 2014, and there is a focus on cloud security in the latest whitepapers, which you can...

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Blog Post: sp_SrvPermissions & sp_DBPermissions V5.0

These are a couple of stored procedures I wrote to help me with security research. Each of the stored procedures returns three data sets. A list of principals and some basic properties about them....

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Blog Post: SQL Saturday 286 Roundup

I got to admit, this SQL Saturday was a power packed lineup with some really good talented speakers. Due to other speaking obligations I was unable to submit a session or attend the full day, but the...

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Blog Post: SQL Server 2012 || Contained Database

Contained databases are the new feature in SQL Server 2012 and are defined on BOL ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff929071.aspx ) as below : A contained database is a database that is...

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Blog Post: SQL Server – Script to Configure TempDB Files per Number of...

In order to reduce Tempdb contention one of  the best practices is to maintain multiple sized Tempdb data files, matching the number of processors and up to a maximum of 8. In this post I will show you...

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Blog Post: Fix for index corruption issue || SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2

ISSUE : FIX for Data loss in clustered index occurs when you run online build index in SQL Server 2012 Microsoft release a fix for above issue and now available for download for SQL Server 2012SP2....

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Blog Post: PASS DBA VC Session 25th June

It’s always an honour to be able to speak at an event, but events can be expensive to attend and they don’t always occur at a time or location that is convenient for you. Thankfully those smart people...

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Blog Post: Tips Tuesday: Gaining Index Insight

In the world outside the datacenter, it seems like indexes now longer get respect. Can you even remember the last time you checked out the card catalogue index at your local library? Have stocks...

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Blog Post: SQL Server – Script to Identify and Update Database Auto-Growth...

An auto-growth event is the process by which the SQL Server engine expands the size of a database file when it runs out of space. The amount by which a database file should grow is determined by the...

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