Blog Post: Yes, Virginia, you can have too much white space.
When I was in college and taking programming classes (back in the days when “a T-Rex ate my 5.25 inch floppy” was a reasonable excuse) we were taught that since the compiler didn’t really see white...
View ArticleBlog Post: IT books that should be on your shelf
I have a lot of books on my shelves dealing with business intelligence, data warehousing, master data management, and consulting. Below are my favorites: Data Warehouse Books: Ralph Kimball Books...
View ArticleBlog Post: Working with FileTable Constraints
I’ve been playing a little more with FileTables lately, and I thought I’d share some of what I’ve seen when applying my own constraints. I’m testing with a SQL 2014 Developer Edition instance, but I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Remembering Reed Jacobson
I just received some bad news and found out that a friend passed away today. Reed Jacobson was one of the early leaders in the Microsoft Business Intelligence community. Somewhere around 2004-2008 I...
View ArticleBlog Post: Goodbye Microsoft, Hello New Adventure
About two months ago, after 2.5 years, I left Microsoft. Microsoft is an amazing place to work for. It’s conformable, balanced, challenging and educating. I feel like the factors of my maturity and...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Data Analysts Toolkit Day 1: cleaning and importing your data...
What does the Data Analyst need for a Toolkit? Power BI - Excel, Power Query, Power View R Power BI - cleanse, model, visualise R - check, check, check, explore, statistics. In this series, we will...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Data Analysts Toolkit Day 2: Installing R and R Studio
In this topic, we will look at the installation of R and RStudio as part of our R and Power BI Data Analysts Toolkit. Why use RStudio as well as R? Simply put, it is suitable for the enterprise and it...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Data Analysts Toolkit Day 3: Introduction to running and...
I have located a number of R Scripts over at my OneDrive account and you can head over there to download them. There are some other goodies over there too, so why not take a look? how do you open...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Data Analysts Toolkit Day 4: Getting to know R a bit better
So what actually is R? Let's take a look at running some commands, and we can talk about it as we go along. R is a powerful environment for statistical computing It is like a calculator and its power...
View ArticleBlog Post: The Data Analysts Toolkit Day 5: How do R and Power BI fit together?
How do R and Power BI fit together? Technically, it is about munging data around between R and Excel and the Power BI components. You can use RODBC to connect to data between R and SQL Server, or R...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to Check SQL Server Installation Date Time ?
You need to run the following query and it will give you the date of your SQL Server Installation. SELECT @@SERVERNAME SERVERNAME, CREATE_DATE ‘INSTALALTIONDATE’ FROM SYS.SERVER_PRINCIPALS WHERE SID =...
View ArticleBlog Post: Download & Win a Free Entry to PASS Summit 2014 - It's that easy!
There’s never been a more exciting time for data professionals – or a time when database management skills have been as in demand – since more organizations across industries are turning to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Back From 2014 CodeStock
Last week I had the privilege to speak at CodeStock in Knoxville, TN. I have to admit that I was not all that pleased at taking a red eye flight, but that is all on me. The city of Knoxville was...
View ArticleBlog Post: Recuperar DML através do Transaction Log
Todos sabem que quando é feita uma operação no banco muita coisa passa pelo Transaction Log. Pode ser de minimamente logado ou até quase absolutamente tudo e todo mundo sabe que é possível restaurar...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For July 18, 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: Reblog: July 11 to July 17
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: How to Accelerate SQL Queries and Reporting Across All Your Data
Join the Dell Software team on the 30th of July at 12:00 PM EDT for an informative webinar on How to Accelerate SQL Queries and Reporting Across Database Platforms. Register at...
View ArticleBlog Post: Creating a SharePoint Server Farm in Azure - Part 2
In Part 1 of Creating a SharePoint Server Farm in Azure , we went through the screen shots and steps available for using the gallery resources available in Azure for setting up a SharePoint Farm. In...
View ArticleBlog Post: Add them to ALL the roles!
I seem to get a lot of permissions questions these days and one of the more frequent ones goes along these lines “I still don’t have the right permissions on database xyq.” So of course the first...
View ArticleBlog Post: Steps to install Service Pack for SQL Server 2005 – Multiple...
Steps to install Service Pack for SQL Server 2005 on multiple instances in one go :- Step 1 : First page of Service pack setup. Informatory details only. Step 2 : Confirm EULA (End User License...
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