Blog Post: Q&A From My Azure Webinar With Scott Klein
Recently (OK, on July 23rd, 2014 to be exact) I co-presented a webinar with Scott Klein ( blog | @SQLScott ) titled “ Know Before You Go: SQL Server on Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines “. It was a...
View ArticleBlog Post: More Soft Skills From The Ambulance
A couple days ago I posted some of the lessons I learned in the back of an ambulance that have translated into my career as a SQL Server Consultant or a DBA. I promised I had a few more. Here they...
View ArticleBlog Post: Effects of sp_rename on Stored Procedures
There comes a time when mistakes are made. Sometimes those mistakes can be as annoying as a spelling mistake during the creation of a stored procedure. When a mistake such as that happens, we are...
View ArticleBlog Post: #SQLServer – Where does my index live?
Today, I got asked by one of my DBA’s about a recently deployed database that seemed to have a lot of filegroups with only a few tables. He wanted to verify that one of the tables was correctly...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For August 15, 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 Do You Need A Log...
View ArticleBlog Post: USING SQL & POWERSHELL – Different Methods to List Databases WITH...
USING POWERSHELL TO LIST SQLSERVER USER DATABASES WITH RECOVERY MODELS One of op requested to list all the user defined databases where it has been configured with simple recovery model across ‘N’...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: August 8 to August 14
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years, I’ve written a few things that are worth a revisit from time to time. In this post, you’ll...
View ArticleBlog Post: Day 6: The Data Analysts Toolkit: Why are Excel and R useful...
Why is analytics interesting? Well, companies are starting to view it as profitable. For example, McKinsey showed analytics was worth 100Bn today, and estimated to be over 320Bn by 2020. When I speak...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using Power Query to Get Data From an Excel File in OneDrive Via URL
In this blog entry I'm going to discuss accessing an Excel file that's stored in OneDrive. What I do *not* want to do is associate the files to my local file path such as c:\users\melissa\onedrive......
View ArticleBlog Post: How To Split Non-Empty Partitions When A Clustered Columnstore...
Another pithily titled blog post, but this one revisits the feature of SQL Server 2014 that piqued my interest the most: Clustered Columnstore Indexes. I’ve been working with Clustered Columnstore...
View ArticleBlog Post: Removing Punctuation From Text In Power Query
In one of my first posts on Power Query (and still my favourite) I found the top 100 words in the complete works of Shakespeare . As always when you’re learning a new tool, though, I look back at what...
View ArticleBlog Post: Generating a restore script
In order to speed up our backups on a large database our team decided to stripe the backup files. In case you weren’t aware of this particular backup feature it his means that a single backup is...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQLSaturday Precon Cost Structure
Many of you may already know that I am a PASS regional mentor for the South Central region of the United States. My role is to help user group leaders obtain the tools they need to have successful...
View ArticleBlog Post: Managing a Technical Team: Building Better
Heard a great podcast the other day from the team at Manager Tools , entitled “THE Development Question”. I’m sorry to say that I can’t find it on their website, but it did show up in Podcast Addict...
View ArticleBlog Post: And Just Like That….Three Years
Time is a constant. Anything and everything requires time it seems, and with that said I received a reminder today that three years have passed since I first started this adventure called blogging....
View ArticleBlog Post: HOW TO: Find Currently Running Long SQL Agent Jobs
A while ago I had posted a script to help find jobs that were currently running longer than expected. Since I’ve been sharing some scripts recently , I decided to verify that this script still works...
View ArticleBlog Post: Export a SSMS Query Result Set to CSV
Once you have a query that is returning the data you like in SSMS you have a few options to move the result set into a format that you can use in other tools. The simplest way is to select all results...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #97
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: Create and connect to a SQL Database on Windows Azure
Azure , is one of the fastest growing cloud platform by Microsoft. In this simple post, I will create and connect to a SQL Database on Microsoft Azure. To get started logon to the Microsoft Azure...
View ArticleBlog Post: Two years!
Two years ago today I began my blog with a post about the DEFAULT keyword . I set out with the goal of building a blog I could be truly proud of in three years. One that was well liked and provided...
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