OPENQUERY arrives with a lot of baggage. Try this alternative technique to inserting stored procedure results into a new table.
2017-09-22 (first published: 2016-03-22)
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Excel and Power BI work well together. This allows you to use the two tools together to provide for many types of business workflow and BI practices. You can publish an Excel file to Power BI to share with others, analyse a Power BI dataset in Excel or import either an Excel workbook or Excel data to Power BI. You can gain the workgroup power and business-orientation of Power BI without losing the ease and versatility of Excel. Saurabh shows how.
2017-09-22
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Step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for SQL Server 2016.
2017-09-21
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Are you purging the old database mail items stored in msdb? In this tip, Greg Larsen shows you how to purge database mail.
2017-09-21
3,011 reads
Any DBA who is trying to find the cause of an intermittent problem with a server or database dreams of being able to use a query or procedure take a snap of the relevant variables at the point when the problem occurred. Laerte takes an example of a slow-running query hogging resources to show that you can run queries when a WMI alert is fired, and save the results for later inspection, whenever it happens.
2017-09-20
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Sometimes there is a need to find if a string value exists in any column in your table. Although there are system stored procedures that do a "for each database" or a "for each table", there is not a system stored procedure that does a "for each column".
2017-09-19
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This article will explain how to fix "The Instance ID 'MSSQLSERVER' Is Already In Use By SQL Server Instance 'MSSQLSERVER.INACTIVE'
Error.
2017-09-18
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You probably shouldn't be doing this, but if you need to, Brent Ozar has a script for that.
2017-09-18
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Email addresses are very prevalent in IT systems and often used as a natural primary key. The repetitive storage of email addresses in multiple tables is a bad design choice. Following is a design pattern to store email addresses in a single table and to retrieve them efficiently.
2017-09-15 (first published: 2015-09-24)
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It is not just the analytic power of R that you get from using SQL Server R Services, but also the great range of packages that can be run in R that provide a daunting range of graphing and plotting facilities. Robert Sheldon shows how you can take data held in SQL Server and, via SQL Server R Services, use an R package called ggPlot that offers a powerful graphics language for creating elegant and complex plots.
2017-09-15
6,981 reads
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
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This was Redgate in 2010, spread across the globe. First the EU/US Here’s Asia...
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Today is Christmas and while I do not expect anybody to actual be reading...
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I want to use the new BASE64_ENCODE() function in SQL Server 2025, but return a string that isn't large type. What is the longest varbinary string I can pass in and still get a varchar(8000) returned?
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