Although quite a lot has been written about PowerPivot and its features, there are certain aspects about PowerPivot that may not be obvious, especially to someone who is new to the tool. This articles discusses five such items.
2016-11-25 (first published: 2015-01-12)
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Koen Verbeeck provides an overview of the new features and capabilities found in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016.
2016-11-25
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In this post I will show a procedure to change collation settings of SQL Server 2014 cluster instance.
2016-11-24
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As an IT company, it is crucial that you maintain uptime and monitor the performance of various processes. By making database load balancing a key element, you can ensure that your processes and websites run smoothly. Tony Branson explains.
2016-11-24
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2016-11-23
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In this post I will show a procedure to configure Integration Services in a SQL Server 2016 Cluster.
2016-11-22
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Whether you are running an RDBMS, or a Big Data system, it is important to consider your data-partitioning strategy. As the volume of data grows, so it becomes increasingly important to match the way you partition your data to the way it is queried, to allow 'pruning' optimisation. When you have huge imports of data to consider, it can get complicated. Bartosz explains how to get things right; not perfect but wisely.
2016-11-22
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2016-11-21
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Rob Farley discusses some solutions and gotchas for implementing a custom sort using ORDER BY in T-SQL queries.
2016-11-21
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It is worth getting familiar with Apache Spark because it a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing and you can use you existing SQL skills to get going with analysis of the type and volume of semi-structured data that would be awkward for a relational database. With an IDE such as Databricks you can very quickly get hands-on experience with an interesting technology.
2016-11-18
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By gbargsley
Recently, I was in a technical interview where the topic of running PowerShell at...
By alevyinroc
I don’t recall where this came up (probably in SQLSlack), but I had a...
By Steve Jones
One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to...
Hi, we put together an extract that runs every 15 minutes against what i...
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