Blog Post: My Epic Life Quest – Level 2 Achieved
DING – LEVEL 2 !!! I am excited to announce that I have achieved level 2 in My Epic Life Quest . My epic life quest is an idea that I got from Steve Kamb via Brent Ozar. As life goals are achieved you...
View ArticleBlog Post: Building Your First Windows Azure Machine
Recently, I had the pleasure of writing another article that was included the Notes From the Field series that is hosted out on SQLAuthority.com . This tip was my first one working with Azure. To me...
View ArticleBlog Post: Analytics Platform System (APS) AU3 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS) , which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) , has just released an appliance update (AU3), which is sort of like a service pack, except that it...
View ArticleBlog Post: Using PowerShell For More Readable Log Files
Most of the scheduled jobs on my SQL Servers write some sort of output to a log file. Most of the time, it's just the output of a SQL statement. However, for some of my longer, more complicated...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server 2014 – Delayed Transaction Durability
Prior to SQL Server 2014, SQL Server used a Write Ahead Log (WAL) mechanism which means that changes are written to the transaction log before they are committed. The major advantage with this...
View ArticleBlog Post: Offer – Any e-book for $5
Packt Publishing are having a price drop bonanza over the Christmas period. You can get any e-book for just $5 (£3.60 in British money). This includes my book, Getting Started with SQL Server 2012...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For December 19, 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 sp_BackupDatabases...
View ArticleBlog Post: XQuery – Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the “attribute” axis even if you don’t know or need to know the attribute names. By using this axis you can access all...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: December 12 to December 18
Photo credit – Travis Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time to dig out some old posts and find out if there are any undiscovered...
View ArticleBlog Post: I am joining SQLskills
I am no longer just a SQLskills Insider, I am now a SQLskills employee. I have accepted an offer to join an incredible team of SQL Server professionals and continue growing in my SQL career. I am...
View ArticleBlog Post: First Ask “Why”, then Ask “How”
A common refrain we hear when presenting at technical conferences and training events is “How can I get promoted into IT management?” We hear this so often that we’ve worked out a sort of mental...
View ArticleBlog Post: DBTA – Microsoft SQL Server and the Big Data Play
When it comes to implementing a big data strategy in a Microsoft SQL Server shop, you’re generally going to consider one of three strategies. In the first strategy, which I won’t be addressing today,...
View ArticleBlog Post: New Power BI stand-alone Designer, Dashboards, APIs & iOS App
This week Microsoft announced the availability of Power BI Dashboards and the browser-based dashboard designer. What is it and why is it important? The most significant thing about it is that report...
View ArticleBlog Post: Big Changes - What You Need to Know About the Power BI Public Preview
Yesterday Microsoft released a Public Power BI Preview for customers to evaluate new features in Power BI. This newly redesigned platform offers many familiar components, as well as some new and...
View ArticleForum Post: How to configure available memory for TOAD ..
Hello, I'm using Toad for SQL 6.1 Quite ofter when Result set returns more than 300000 records and I want to highlight all of it in order to export I've got this dialog: The current number of rows...
View ArticleBlog Post: Use of RPC in Cluster
Today, My one of friend come back from SQL DBA interview & share his review. One question about which he is looking for was “What is the use of RPC in cluster” ? The Remote Procedure Call (RPC)...
View ArticleBlog Post: DBTA – Big Data and Microsoft SQL Server HDInsight
It’s time to follow up with a discussion of Microsoft’s cloud-centric approach to big data using HDInsight. MICROSOFT SQL SERVER AND BIG DATA IN THE CLOUD HDInsight is a 100% Apache Hadoop service,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Viewing Error Messages For All Rows In Power Query
One of the great features of Power Query is the way you can view any rows that contain error values when you load data. However, even if you can see the rows that have errors you can’t see the error...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL – How to Find Missing Sequence in a table
Problem statement:- A table with identity column have ‘n’ rows in that few rows are deleted. How to find which rows are deleted? Solution:- create table test (a int); insert into test values...
View ArticleBlog Post: Failing over AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Merry Christmas Eve! A few weeks ago I posted on Availability Group fail-over tests with PowerShell . That post covered the basics of how to check the Availability Group’s state and perform the...
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