This article presents a pair of queries and reports that reads the ReportServer.dbo.ExecutionLog table to list all SSRS reports that were executed or not-executed in the past 30 days, how many times they were executed, and who executed them.
2020-01-17 (first published: 2017-04-25)
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In this article we look at different use cases for columnstore indexes like when performing SQL Server count * queries.
2020-01-17
Josh Smith shows how to use SQL Data Catalog to perform a 'first cut' data classification for one your SQL Server databases, identifying all columns that are likely to hold personal or otherwise sensitive data.
2020-01-17
Introduction If you import flat files and use double quotes as your Flat File Text Qualifiers, then it’s likely that you’ve encountered problems when importing data where speech marks have been entered manually. This is a common occurrence in free text fields, such as Name. e.g. Smith, James “Jim” Attempting to import a file with a […]
2020-01-16
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How to use reverse regex expressions in SQL Data Generator to fill a text column in SQL Server with fake, but very realistic complaints.
2020-01-16
T-SQL window functions simplify solving many complex queries. In this article, Edward Pollack demonstrates how the functions can be used to find gaps and islands in a dataset.
2020-01-16
New Relic Infrastructure is a capable server monitoring tool but adding Integrations provides only 'bare bones' monitoring for SQL Server. Grant Fritchey argues that to "instrument" a complex system such as SQL Server, effectively, you also need a tool that is built specifically for this purpose.
2020-01-15
We asked what you make, and 1,734 of you in 63 countries answered. Altogether, you made $170,753,936 this year. Damn, y’all are bringing home the bacon!
2020-01-15
Documentation is never a favorite task for developers. This article describes how you can use database system catalogs to make generating column descriptions less labor-intensive and also jump start a data dictionary or catalog.
2020-01-14
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Microsoft has a new virtual core offering of Azure SQL database called serverless and this offering optimizes the price performance tradeoff and simplifies performance management for databases with intermittent and unpredictable usage.
2020-01-14
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