Blog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #93
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: Null Values in SQL Server
Walk & Talk #001 – Unknown or Null Values Ride with us in this video as we head to Richmond, Virginia to present to their user group. This is the first official Walk & Talk, but you’ll notice...
View ArticleBlog Post: July 2014 – SQL Server Monthly Maintenance Checklist
image source It’s been a few months since I’ve updated my SQL Server monthly maintenance checklist. Even though it hasn’t been updated, hopefully people have been continuing to look at their...
View ArticleBlog Post: Make an SSIS package Delay or Wait for Data
Packages can be scheduled to run at a time when you expect data to be in a database. Instead of guessing the time when the data will be in the database we can have the package look for data in a SQL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Where to Find Q&A Optimizations in Power BI
Just a quick tip about where to locate the options in Power BI for doing Q&A optimizations. In the Power BI site, these are not where you might first think to look. What is Q&A? First, just a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Working With Excel Named Ranges In Power Query
One of the more recent additions to Power Query is the ability to access data from named ranges in the Excel worksheet rather than an Excel table. I’ve got used to formatting data as tables in Excel...
View ArticleBlog Post: Difference Between LEN and DATALENGTH
DATALENGTH - Returns the number of bytes used to represent any expression. LEN - Returns the number of characters of the specified string expression, excluding trailing blanks Output is 30, 3....
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Agent job steps vs SSIS
When doing ETL , you have the choice of using T-SQL or SSIS (see When to use T-SQL or SSIS for ETL ). If you decide T-SQL is the way to go and you just want to execute a bunch of T-SQL statements...
View ArticleBlog Post: Quick Query to Display Database by Dataspace, Table, and Index
This query just breaks down the current database by dataspace, table, and index, giving you some useful information such as size in MB, pathname of the dataspace file, etc. -- Shows size of each...
View ArticleBlog Post: Tuesday Tips: Test Backup and Recovery. Then Test Again.
DBAs aren’t doctors. Or firefighters, police officers or paramedics. But within the datacenter, a significant database loss could have a major impact on the life and death of a business. Not to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cumulative Update – 11 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Is Now...
The 11th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 11 contains all the hotfixes released since the...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2012 with SP2 Slipstream ISO images fixed
Microsoft fixed SQL Server 2012 with SP2 Slipstream ISO images do not install SP2 issue. The new ISOs have been posted on their respective release channels (MSDN…) and are now available. Refer :...
View ArticleBlog Post: Why am I getting a primary/unique key violation?
This may seem like a question with a simple answer but there is a bit more to it than you might think. In fact I know of 3 possible reasons (and there may be more I don’t know) for seeing a primary...
View ArticleBlog Post: Determining the Primary Key of a table without knowing it’s name
So, I’ve been trying to find more technical fodder for blog posts lately in order to get in the habit of blogging on a regular basis, so I thought I would explore a few of my higher-ranked answers on...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cannot show the editor for this task.
I got this error in SSIS when I try to open Execute SQL Task. Then I tried to open already configured Execute SQL Task in some other SSIS packages. Still the error exists. I was wondering this is an...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cumulative Updates – SQL Server 2012 SP2 CU1
As part of their Incremental Service Modelling , Microsoft have released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 1! In my article about SQL Server 2012 SP2 I shared a post about a bug...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For July 25, 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...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: July 18 to July 24
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”...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cumulative Update – 1 for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 Is Now...
The 1st cumulative update release for SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 2 is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 1 contains all the hotfixes released since the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Calculating The Value Of Overdue Invoices Using Many-To-Many...
Recently I had to solve the same, rather complex, problem for three different customers within the space of two weeks, a variation of the ‘events-in-progress’ problem I’ve blogged about a lot in the...
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