Blog Post: Book: Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development...
I was fortunate to be a technical reviewer for a new book, SQL Server 2014 Business Intelligence Development by Reza Rad. Below is the abstract. It’s a great book for those of you trying to learn...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2014 Day 1 Keynote Live Blog
This morning I will be live blogging the PASS Summit 2014 Day 1 keynote so those at home can follow one.
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL Tuesday #60 – Something New Learned
Lights go on, it’s another game day, grabbed my bat and headed for the plate only this time we are going to do this SQL style and the game is T-SQL Tuesday. That’s right, head coach Adam Machanic has...
View ArticleBlog Post: Blogger Table – Day 1 – Thomas LaRock
The key note has just begun and the number of first timers standing up is quite incredible and large. Thomas LaRock has begun the keynote speech and runs through the board of Directors and then makes...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2014 Day 1 Keynote
I’m sitting on the blogger’s table for the PASS Summit 2014 keynote, and this post is a quick summary of all of the BI-related announcements (minor and hopefully major) made this year. The really...
View ArticleBlog Post: #SQLSatDC 10 Reasons to Attend
It is just over one month until SQL Saturday #347 in Washington DC and if you haven’t made plans to attend then let me motivate you to git er done. 1. Allen White , @sqlrunr , Get Near Realtime ETL...
View ArticleBlog Post: Get SQL Agent Job History Durations in Units of Seconds
For some reason, the run_duration column of the sysjobhistory system table is stored as an integer in HHMMSS format. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but here's some code to list all...
View ArticleBlog Post: 5 Days of PASS – Day 3
Well just when you thought things could not get any busier, along comes Day 3 of the PASS Summit. I started the day on the PASS Blogger Table for the opening Keynote speech of the Summit introduced by...
View ArticleBlog Post: #0350 – SQL Server – CREATE INDEX – DROP_EXISTING option and Msg 7999
Normally, when we need to perform maintenance operations on any database object as part of a database deployment, we would first check for it’s existence. If the object exists, the query would be...
View ArticleBlog Post: Another great reason to enable remote admin connections
I recently came cross another great reason to enable the remote admin connections server configuration on SQL server. If you don’t know what the DAC is I’m not going to go into detail here so check...
View ArticleBlog Post: Configuring a Complete Memory Dump
Imagine this scenario: One of your servers just crashed, and you open a ticket with Microsoft for them to perform a root cause analysis and hopefully find a solution. What you get instead is this:...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2014 Is Off and Running! Day 1 Recap
PASS Summit 2014 kicked-off today in Seattle, and it’s already proving to be a great show! Did you know that there are nearly 6,000 DBA pro’s on the ground at PASS this year? We are truly in amazing...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2014 Day 2 Keynote Live Blog
We are back in the keynote room with Adam Jorgensen talking to us about the financial state and health on the PASS organization. It’s currently very healthy with over $1 Million in reserve.
View ArticleBlog Post: Using Bookmarks in SQL Server Management Studio
In SQL Server one way we optimize code is by adding indexes. Indexes help queries by essentially letting the engine know “hey, here’s the fast way to get directly to the data you want”. The...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2014 Day 2 Keynote: A Masterclass In Cloud Databases,...
The PASS Summit keynote today was given by Dr Rimma Nehme , a colleague of PASS favourite Dr David DeWitt, who gave a great talk on cloud databases. A recording of the keynote will I’m sure be posted...
View ArticleBlog Post: It’s The Data, Stupid
No Offense I mean no offense by the title. The title goes back to American election politics. Someone somewhere (James Carville said this in 1991 about the focus of the campaign he managed for Bill...
View ArticleBlog Post: PowerShell- Monitor Group Of Services on ‘N’ Servers & Notify...
This post explains how to monitor a multiple services on a list of servers and send alert when the given service is in stopped state. This script will allow you to read a list of servers from the...
View ArticleBlog Post: PASS Summit 2014: WIT Luncheon with Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code When Kimberly Bryant began studying programming at college, she found that there were few women, let alone women of color, in her program. As a fellow...
View ArticleBlog Post: News On SSAS Data Source Support In Power BI
Yesterday we heard (again) that SSAS will be supported as a data source for cloud-based reports in Power BI. Today, in a session , two new important details on this emerged: It will work with both...
View ArticleBlog Post: I need your help
The Situation On the 19th November I am going to be presenting two sessions for the Luxembourg PASS chapter at the Microsoft offices there, you can register for the event here . One session is on Wait...
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