We often use excel for any running repetitive calculations since it is a very convenient user friendly interface which allows us to just enter a formula in a cell and simply drag and drop the formulas to generate a complete output.
2011-12-16
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2011-12-15 (first published: 2010-05-12)
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2011-12-15
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Jeff Moden's election to the Exceptional DBA of the Year award for 2011 was a popular one. Although all the finalists were exceptional, Jeff has impressed everyone with his energy, stamina and wit, particularly with his work on SQL Server Central. In conversation with Richard Morris, Jeff comes up with several nuggets of advice and opinion that are valuable for any DBA or database developer.
2011-12-15
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On Thursday December 15th at 8PM Pacific, Jeremy will discuss the strengths and disadvantages of a row-versioned data warehouse design in the context of a real world case study, sharing lessons learnt and demonstrating some of the technologies and techniques used to build a row-versioned data warehouse
2011-12-15
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I’ve been working with execution plans quite a lot in SQL Server 2012. There are a number of changes, most of them associated with new or different functionality. I had not noticed anything really fundamental until recently. I’ve become a huge proponent of always checking the properties of the SELECT statement. There’s so much useful information in there about what’s happened with the plan generation in the optimizer (not low level stuff, but the big picture items) that you should always be checking it first as a fundamental part of your plan examinations.
2011-12-14
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Backups are an everyday part of DBA life, whereas restores tend to happen on call at 3 a.m. In this article, Grant Fritchey looks at what you should be doing to make your restores as quick and seamless as possible.
2011-12-14
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With data stored in tables, you have a few options to protect data. Check out this tip to learn more about column level encryption.
2011-12-14
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2011-12-13 (first published: 2010-05-05)
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Learn to simplify date logic using date tables and recursion in T-SQL with this article from David Beardsley.
2011-12-13
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By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
Next up in my series talking about The Burrito Bot is diving into the...
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
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Good Morning. I have a T-SQL Script which has been developed to execute a...
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers