Automation - done right - frees you to add real value to your team, but you've got to be careful not to shoot yourself in the foot. Join Brian A. Randell, Grant Fritchey and Steve Jones as they discuss how to get started when automating your database operations, and what activities are ripe for automation!
2015-06-29 (first published: 2015-06-26)
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Learn how to generate lists of column values from multiple rows by grouping and using a recursive CTE. This is a very flexible and easy implementation, compared to using cursors or PIVOT operators.
2015-06-26 (first published: 2013-07-09)
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The Power BI Designer was recently added under the Microsoft Power BI umbrella. Power BI Designer quickly builds reports or dashboards locally and deploys them to the Power BI site. In this article, Arshad Ali demonstrates how to get started with Power BI Designer.
2015-06-26
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Challenges with integrating MySQL data in an ETL regime and the Amazing FMTONLY trick!
2015-06-25
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A collection of technologies and links that will help you learn more about SQL Server 2012.
2015-06-25
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Azure Stream Analytics aims to extract knowledge structures from continuous ordered streams of data by real-time analysis. It provides a ready-made solution to the business requirement to react very quickly to changes in data and handle large volumes of information. Robert Sheldon explains its significance.
2015-06-25
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This metric measures the amount of memory used by the total number of ad-hoc queries that are currently in the plan cache. If the value is high, it indicates memory is being wasted by storing the execution plans of queries that will never be run more than one time.
2015-06-25
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Sometimes SQL Server Reporting Services users want to export SSRS reports into Excel with multiple sheets, but when the SSRS report data region (Tablix/Matrix) doesn't have any grouping then all the data will be exported into a single sheet. Ghanesh Prasad explains how to export a SSRS report into Excel with multiple sheets.
2015-06-24
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2015-06-23
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SQLXML isn't exactly new technology, but like the even more venerable BCP, it remains the quickest and most reliable way of heaving large quantities of data into SQL Server databases. SQLXML is very versatile, and once set up is wonderfully reliable ETL system, but isn't trivial to learn. Adam Aspin comes to the rescue with a simple guide.
2015-06-23
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