Blog Post: Connect to SQL Server When Window account Locked Out || Sql...
Hello Friends, It’s being a many days I haven’t written anything. But there was lot of stuff I was thinking to nail it down as my experience but I was too busy to write it out. Some days back I faced...
View ArticleBlog Post: Presentations slides for Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions” for Pragmatic Works . The abstract for my session is below and the recording will be available soon here . I hope...
View ArticleBlog Post: Workload Tuning: Finding Top Offenders in SQL Server 2012
I have to give credit where credit is due. Microsoft has defiantly made performance tuning easier in SQL Server 2012. Performance tuning usually starts with finding your top offenders so you can get...
View ArticleForum Post: Question about Toad Data Point 3.2.0.916
I had an automated process that ran perfectly in a previous version of Toad; every day at 8:00 pm the automation scritp would run producing a series of text files that would be used for reporting in a...
View ArticleBlog Post: Best Practices to Deliver BI Solutions
If your company is planning to build a data warehouse or BI solution (see Why you need Business Intelligence ), you need to be aware that BI projects have high failure rates. Gartner says between 70%...
View ArticleBlog Post: 8 Ways To Be An Awesome Data Professional
Some of you aren’t very good at what you do. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but it’s true. I have proof. Every day I go into forums and read about someone who can’t recover data , or I meet...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSIS Logging and Event Propagation
While presenting at a recent conference on handling errors in SSIS I was demonstrating implementing logging and pointing out how event propagation affects the logged events. To make a long story...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: August 2 to August 8
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” – buried treasure!...
View ArticleBlog Post: Time for a Change
I have joined BlueGranite , a Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing firm. BlueGranite has an excellent reputation, and has a ton of interesting projects for a BI developer like me to...
View ArticleBlog Post: DMV-13 : Finding locking & blocking……..sys.dm_tran_locks
sys.dm_tran_locks DMV (Dynamic Management View), described by BOL as follows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190345.aspx Returns information about currently active lock manager resources....
View ArticleBlog Post: How does Instant File Initialization Help Your Databases?
In an earlier article, I spoke about a Best Practice called File Initialization . I walk you through setting it up I pointed you to a blog by Kimberly Tripp . Today, I want to show you how much time...
View ArticleBlog Post: Environment Variables in SSIS Packages and Configuration Tables
Configuration tables are a best practice in just about any SSIS environment. They make it easy to update multiple packages from a single change. But one of the issues with configuration tables is the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Enabling Data Compression – August 2013 Update
I recently posted an update of my script to enable data compression in SQL Server, but I've made some significant changes recently and decided it was time to put another version out there. What...
View ArticleBlog Post: “My transaction log is too big!”
“My transaction log is too big!” I wish I had a dime for each time phrase has been spoke, written, tweeted, etc. I’ve read about it in various forums, blog posts etc. Discussed it with co-workers and...
View ArticleBlog Post: Summer absences, upcoming appearances, and…
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and in Texas we’re getting 100F-plus weather pretty consistently. This brain-frying weather may help to explain how I managed not to bother letting anyone...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL – One Query to fetch SQL Jobs Details of All SQL Version –...
Single Query to fetch complete details of sql jobs and you can run it across different version of SQL [2000/2005/2008 and R2]. I’ve undergone dynamic query string limitation issue and hence I’m...
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL Tuesday #45 Follow the Yellow Brick Road
We have the distinct pleasure once again to have a party full of SQL enthusiasts. The best part is that few if any of us are even in the same room or building for this party. The party is known as...
View ArticleBlog Post: Sys.dm_os_perfomance_counters Demystified
The dmv sys.dm_os_performance_counters is awesome, if you can understand it. This is how I make it easy to read and use. Here are the values I watch and why I watch them. My list isn’t going to be...
View ArticleBlog Post: Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 09/08/13
It’s Something For The Weekend(SFTW) time, I hope you’ve had a great week! Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been a tad quieter in the SQL community of late. No not because I’ve been slacking off...
View ArticleBlog Post: SSIS How Many Errors in an Error
A common misconception in SSIS is that an error is a single event. The reality is that an error is actually a collection, but how many errors are in an error? To demonstrate this consider the...
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