Blog Post: 2014 PASS Summit 2014 Board Q&A Notes
As has occurred in previous years at the PASS Summit the PASS Board of Directors held an open Q&A session on the final day. I was able to attend most of the session but had to leave a few minutes...
View ArticleForum Post: Generate Use Database in DDL
Hello - Would some guide me to the settings for generating "use database" in the DDL generation? Cheers, Nick
View ArticleForum Post: Alter View in Query Builder?
I'm coming to Toad from SQL Server Management Studio where you can Right Click - Design View and modify a view and save. I can't seem to find this in Toad. Is there any way to Alter an existing View...
View ArticleBlog Post: Changing Delay Between Responses for SQL Alerts with Powershell
So you have read that you should have alerts for severity levels 16 to 24 and 823,824 and 825 on SQLSkills.com or maybe you have used sp_blitz and received the Blitz Result: No SQL Server Agent Alerts...
View ArticleBlog Post: Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #109
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: Returning Error Messages As Well As Results In Power Query
Back in September I wrote a post on handling situations where the data source for your Power Query query was unavailable. The great thing about that technique is that instead of seeing an error...
View ArticleBlog Post: Improved Online Operations in SQL Server 2014
Online indexing rebuilding was a major breakthrough from SQL Server to support users re-indexing while the clustered index (or table) and other indexes are available during the index rebuild...
View ArticleBlog Post: You don’t really need ORDER BY do you?
You see dozens of blog posts and articles about how the order of a result set is not guaranteed without an ORDER BY clause and here is my contribution to the subject. You all know I love examples so...
View ArticleBlog Post: How to change the schema of a table
The other day I set out to performance tune a database deployment. The company was getting ready to implement almost a year’s worth of database schema drift where major restructuring had occurred. One...
View ArticleBlog Post: Fast Track Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for SQL Server 2014
I have previously blogged about the Fast Track Data Warehouse, a reference configuration optimized for data warehousing (see Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances ). That was...
View ArticleBlog Post: Combining Data From Multiple Excel Workbooks With Power Query–The...
If there’s one feature of Power Query that’s guaranteed to get Excel users very, very excited indeed it’s the ability to combine data from multiple workbooks into a single table. The bad news is that...
View ArticleBlog Post: Exam Prep 70-463: More about Dimensions
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft SQL Server 2012. So far, we’ve covered: Tables and...
View ArticleForum Post: Debug in toad for sql server 6.5
Hello, I'm using the trial version of toad for sql server 6.5 and I have issues debugging remote server sql server 2008r2: The debugger setup wizard tells me everything is ok on the log when testing,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For November 21, 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 Using Encryption To...
View ArticleBlog Post: Have We Devalued SQL Server Consulting?
Have we given too much away? SQL Server has an amazing community. It freely provides information and training of SQL Server technologies via the internet and even in person events like SQL Saturday’s....
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: November 14 to November 20
Photo credit – JStove Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have them come back around every not and then. This connection might not make that much sense,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Put Your New Leadership Knowledge Into Practice
Have you ever tried to hit a golf ball toward the pin, toss a dart at the bull’s-eye, or chuck a fly at a trout? If you’re like most people, your first attempt didn’t come anywhere close to hitting...
View ArticleBlog Post: A look at the SQL Assessment Intelligence Pack in Operational...
Operational Insights is a service that has been added in preview to Azure. It enables you to collect, combine, correlate and visualize all your machine data in one place. It can collect data from all...
View ArticleBlog Post: DBTA – Mission Critical Performance Enhancements in SQL Server 2014
Microsoft has three major feature sets that they are advancing with SQL Server 2014 (SQL2014). One is called “Mission Critical Performance.” Microsoft wants to stake out this ground not only as...
View ArticleBlog Post: Putting sp_ at the beginning of your stored procedure.
Every now and again you see articles and posts about putting sp_ at the beginning of a stored procedure. So what does that do and why should we care? The primary effect is that if you put a stored...
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