Blog Post: 5 Ways To Avoid Having To Write a Christmas Blog Post
Yes, it’s that time of year again, when every blogger takes time out of the schedule to produce a post about Christmas or whatever Happy Holiday you celebrate. Truth be told I spent the past two weeks...
View ArticleBlog Post: Cumulative Update – 5 for SQL Server 2014 RTM Is Now Available !
The 5th cumulative update release for SQL Server 2014 RTM is now available for download at the Microsoft Support site. Cumulative Update 5 contains all the hotfixes released since the initial release...
View ArticleBlog Post: MCSA SQL Server 2012 and Best Wishes
I can finally announce that this Wednesday, just before Christmas, I nailed the 70-463 exam. About 3 weeks ago I already passed 70-462, so I am now qualified as MCSA SQL Server 2012, whohoo! :-) And...
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL COALESCE Example
T-SQL COALESCE SQL Server T-SQL coalesce simplifies the use of a case statement to find the first non-null value of your expression. For example, I want to return the products in the AdventureWorks...
View ArticleBlog Post: Friday Followup For December 26, 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 Little Java Boy The...
View ArticleBlog Post: Reblog: December 19 to December 25
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: Happy Holidays
Quick and simple for today. Happy Holidays to you! Related Posts: December Recap SQL 2012 has Launched Always Waiting, Waiting Waiting Finally, it has happened… On the Seventh Day…
View ArticleBlog Post: Minimizing Interruptions to Stay “In the Zone”
Have you ever been really focused on solving a problem? So focused that you tuned out the rest of the world around you? A monkey clanging cymbals in the cube next to yours wouldn’t bother you, you...
View ArticleBlog Post: Capturing Database(s) and Table Usage stats – sp_spaceused...
For more Information refer Technet Article Introduction sp_spaceused is one of the system stored procedure used frequently by many DBA’s that reveals amount of space used by database/tables. This...
View ArticleBlog Post: T-SQL – How to Find Number of Words in a Given String
TSQL: To find number of words in a given string DECLARE @DemoTable Table (Col varchar(500)); INSERT INTO @DemoTable (Col)VALUES ('JOHN M SMITH ABC COMPANY') SELECT col, len(Col) - len(replace(col, '...
View ArticleBlog Post: SQL Server Best Practice: Set built-in Sysadmin(sa) account as an...
As we know, when we create database on SQL Server instance, SQL Server engine sets the login that created the database as the default database owner. This gives the user full control on the database,...
View ArticleBlog Post: Do you want to build an Audit?
So I’ve written my second article for SQL Shack . This time instead of an overview of auditing options in sql server I do a walkthrough of the SQL Server Audits feature . It’s probably one of the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Finding a common AD group for a set of users.
I work for a large organization that over the last few years has been doing a LOT of reorgs. And what comes with reorgs? Lots of security requests. I’m always working to find easier ways to deal with...
View ArticleBlog Post: DBTA – Other News in SQL Server 2014 RTM
A while back, I told you about some of the coolest new features in the recent RTM for SQL Server. The RTM was announced during the “Accelerate your insights” webcast by a boatload of Microsoft’s top...
View ArticleBlog Post: Visualising Data with R: HTMLWidgets for R
I’m interested in analyzing and visualizing data with R, as you know. Thanks to Jen Underwood , she pointed me at this cool series of widgets, called HTMLWidgets, that allows you to do some...
View ArticleBlog Post: I Hope That in This Year to Come, You Make Mistakes
And if your company or your boss thinks you should never make any mistakes, you might consider looking for new opportunities. Related posts: First Day of Work Karen: What I Would Tell Her #mememonday...
View ArticleBlog Post: [SQL Snacks Video] Performance Tuning 102 – Files, FileGroups, and...
Finally the arrival of Part 2 of my SQL Snack Pack on Performance Tuning! The series is dedicated to help beginners understand how to start performance tuning with SQL Server. The first video was about...
View ArticleBlog Post: 10th Blog Birthday
Earlier this year I celebrated 1000 posts on this blog ; now it’s time to celebrate passing another milestone: ten years since my first ever post . Thanks to everyone who has been with me since then!...
View ArticleBlog Post: 2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2014....
View ArticleBlog Post: 14 Things That Didn’t Happen To Me In 2014
It’s that time of year again. The time when we find many “year-2014-in-review” and “what-to-expect-when-you’re-expecting-2015? articles littered about the series of tubes known as the internet. It’s...
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