Blog Post: db_ddladmin and the SSMS table designer
If you want to grant a user the ability to create/alter/delete any table, SP, function etc in a database you have a several options. For example: You can grant all of the CREATE permissions either to...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Interact with a PivotTable in Power BI for Office 365
Being able to make a few quick changes to a PivotTable in the browser, without having to download the workbook, is a great feature. Initially when you view an Excel workbook in Power BI (and by this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For July 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 Which One’s Better?...
View ArticleBlog Post: Codestock –SlideDeck
by Julie Smith I had a blast presenting BIML at Codestock today– for my attendees, here are the materials.
View ArticleBlog Post: How To Be Smart In a World Of Dumb
How To Be Smart In a World Of Dumb is a post from: SQLRockstar - Thomas LaRock The post How To Be Smart In a World Of Dumb appeared first on SQLRockstar - Thomas LaRock .
View ArticleBlog Post: Power Query Book Published!
Looking for some summer holiday (or winter holiday, depending on which hemisphere you live in) reading? If so, may I suggest my new Power Query book? “Power Query for Power BI and Excel” is available...
View ArticleBlog Post: Steampunk SQLBits tshirt follow up
Firstly I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who reads this blog. I was totally overwhelmed by the number of people who got in touch, from every part of the world. I am really sorry but I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Four years an MVP: what I've been doing, and what's next?
Four things a woman should know: How to look like a girl, How to act like a lady, How to think like a man, and how to work like a dog. I attended an event recently at which I was speaking. I met a few...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to restore MSDB & MODEL database – SQL Server System Databases?
The msdb database is used by SQL Server Agent for scheduling alerts and jobs and by other features such as SQL Server Management Studio, Service Broker and Database Mail. Issues in MSDB restore that...
View ArticleBlog Post: Mainstream Support End || SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2
Mainstream Support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 was ended on July 8th 2014. This will result no enchantment or no future release of SPs. Somehow, Critical bug fixes may be release as QFE...
View ArticleBlog Post: What does it mean that a value is NULL?
Let’s start by assuming that ANSI_NULLS are ON. If you aren’t sure what ANSI_NULLS are exactly, don’t worry, I’ll be going over that in some detail in a future post. However Microsoft tells us that...
View ArticleBlog Post: Whitelist a Set of IP Addresses in SQL Server
Blacklist vs Whitelist Are you on the Whitelist? I think just about everyone is familiar to some degree with the concepts of a blacklist and whitelist. If not, the easiest way I can summarize them is...
View ArticleBlog Post: Murder In Denver
I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop. This year has been plenty full of whistle stops and I plan on continuing. You can read (in full) about previous whistle...
View ArticleBlog Post: New Power BI Features Shown At WPC
OK, so I’m not at WPC this year but I have just watched this video of Scott Guthrie’s session “The Cloud for Modern Business”. If you’re interested in seeing some new Power BI features take a look at...
View ArticleBlog Post: Packt Tableau Dashboard Cookbook errata and completed files download
Some of you know that I wrote a book on Tableau, called the Tableau Dashboard Cookbook . I am writing to apologise for some errors that occurred at the point of production. These were not in my...
View ArticleBlog Post: Creating a SharePoint Server Farm in Azure
This morning at the Worldwide Partner Conference, the new SharePoint Server Farm in Azure was announced. As a BI developer with limited experience with administration and configuration, this option to...
View ArticleBlog Post: What do you need for my SQLBits R and PowerBI session? Nothing!
What do you need for my SQLBits R and PowerBI session? Nothing! I am not expecting people to have installed anything in advance, hence I have made no requests for the event. I will cover it during...
View ArticleBlog Post: Error 574 Upgrading SQL Server 2012 to SP1
This blog post is way overdue (check the dates in the errror log below), but I promised our sysadmin that I would write it, so here it is. Hopefully, it’ll help some of you with this aggravating...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tuesday Tips: Avoid a Major Backup Misstep
Backups. Consider them the necessary evil of IT operations. While skipping backups is not an option (unless of course you’re prepared for the massive fallout that will happen when data is lost), DBAs...
View ArticleBlog Post: New Power BI Q&A Functionality Released: Optimisation In The Browser
Seems like another new bit of Power BI functionality got released today: the ability to optimize your data model for Q&A in the browser. Here’s the link to the docs:...
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