Learning about the Cardinality Estimator
A few links to help you understand the Cardinality Estimator.
2015-06-29
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Articles
Learning SQL Server 2014
A list of technologies in SQL Server 2014 that you might want to learn more about.
2015-06-29
1,649 reads
Free Webinar: Can you Automate your Ops Away?
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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Using a Recursive CTE to Generate a List
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)
31,224 reads
Getting Started with Power BI Designer
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
4,360 reads
Integration Services, MySql and SET FMTONLY ON
Challenges with integrating MySQL data in an ETL regime and the Amazing FMTONLY trick!
2015-06-25
3,806 reads
Learning SQL Server 2012
A collection of technologies and links that will help you learn more about SQL Server 2012.
2015-06-25
1,402 reads
Microsoft Azure Stream Analytics
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
3,380 reads
SQL Monitor Custom Metric: Memory Used By Ad Hoc Queries Running Once
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
2,334 reads
Export SQL Server Reporting Services Report Data into Multiple Excel with Worksheets
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
2,320 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
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Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
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Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
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SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
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