Blog Post: Creating a Rolling Date Range Named set in MDX
One Client I was working with wanted a named set that would give them the last 5 years. Of course this needed to be a rolling 5 years so it automatically moved the years up every January. To create...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server – Get values as DATETIME from sysjobhistory
This is a follow-up post on SQL Server – Check SQL Agent Job History using T-SQL . SQL Server Agent stores SQL jobs history in sysjobhistory . It has two different columns for date and time, Run_Date...
View ArticleBlog Post: Enabling Data Compression – Updated
Back in March, I wrote about a method I use to enable data compression on a database and periodically Building a better compressor re-scan for new tables to compress. This method worked fine on the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Announcing Our Free Accidental DBA 6 Month Training Plan
You’ve been working with SQL Server for a couple of years now, and you’ve managed to find your way to some good blogs. You usually Google your way out of problems as they arise, and you know there’s a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Converting LOB data to SQL 2012 FileTables
I’ve been reviewing my notes on FileTables lately. If you’re unfamiliar with FileTables, introduced in SQL Server 2012, you can read up on them here . But briefly they are an update to FILESTREAMING...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #42
Number 42 of this weekly previous week round-up. If you follow me on twitter ( @StrateSQL ), you’ll know that throughout the day I tweet out some links of things I find interesting. While these...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerShell Script to find OS Edition and Total RAM on a Server
# Script to find OS Edition and Physical RAM # Created by - Vinoth N Manoharan # Version 1.0 # Date - 22/07/2013 # Script Help :- #--------------- # Parameter 1 :- UNC File Path with Server list #...
View ArticleBlog Post: Security Questions: Granting Access with Jobs
As I mentioned in the introductory post , during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’s Training on the T’s , I received a large number of questions that there wasn’t...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using Change Data Capture and CLR to Transfer Data to the Cloud
We were three: A DBA, a developer and a tester. Our mission: To develop an ongoing process that will transfer one of our biggest and busiest tables to the cloud. Here’s the story of how we did it: The...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Webcast: The Day After Tomorrow; Why YOU need to Baseline
Every day I consider myself extremely fortunate to be in a profession that I really enjoy, as there’s always something new to learn and experiment with. We also have a fantastic SQL Server community...
View ArticleBlog Post: Many Masters, One Truth
As businesses grow, many teams start considering scale out database solutions but they’re cautious – they want to know how to keep data up to date in multiple places. In theory, you can use log...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2014: In-memory OLTP Engine, code-name: Hekaton
What looks to be the biggest and best new feature in SQL Server 2014 is called the “In-memory OLTP Engine”, code-name: Hekaton. In short, Hekaton is a SQL Server In-memory OLTP Engine. Hekaton...
View ArticleBlog Post: Moving Files with Open Source Software, cURL and winSCP
Open Source, ON WINDOWS! I’m still stunned in this day and age that people pay obscene amounts of money on tools that are easily replaced in most cases with quality and stable open source...
View ArticleBlog Post: Power View: Creating Maps
Power View, in addition to GeoFlow Power Maps, has the ability to take geospatial data and graph it to view data from a different perspective. You can’t create tours and some of the features that you...
View ArticleBlog Post: New on DBTA.com: Database Benchmarking Tools, the final article in...
In the last several articles on Database Trends & Applications , I’ve been describing the benefits of reading and analyzing the benchmarking case studies released by the Transaction Processing...
View ArticleBlog Post: Database Mirroring FAQ
I recently gave two webcasts on database mirroring – Mirror Mirror on the Server, Who is the Principal of Us All? and Mirror Mirror on the Server, Who is the Mirror of Us All? - which generated a lot...
View ArticleBlog Post: I’m going to my first SQL Saturday!
I got to go to the Pass Summit in 2011 and had a fantastic time despite some travel issues caused by my own stupidity. Shortly after that I got to go to the Pass Rally in Dallas and had an even more...
View ArticleBlog Post: Windows Azure SQL Database Strategies
I’ve been working with Windows Azure SQL Database (WASD) on and off for about three years. This past year I’ve been a bit more involved. I did the technical review of Pro SQL Database for Windows...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Community Speakers – Why We Do It
I started this post over a year ago and have just now come back around to finish it. Over the years I have been asked about a few misconceptions about speakers for SQL Saturday’s. Over the past...
View ArticleBlog Post: Remover permissão de pasta pública usando powershell
Um cliente pediu para remover a opção de criar sub-pastas de dentro das pastas públicas do Exchange 2010. Ele possui +/- 6.500 usuários de AD (com contas de exchange) e um pouco mais de 9.000 pastas...
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