I want to temporarily use a Log Shipped secondary database for Read Only operations, but Log Shipping was not configured for read only operations. I don't want to reconfigure Log Shipping, so is there a way to do this without redoing Log Shipping.
2015-07-07
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It often pays to use a tool like R, in conjunction with a relational database, to quickly perform a range of analyses, and graphs, in order to ensure that you're answering the right question, to explore alternative hypotheses, or to provide insight into a problem. Feodor demonstrates how to quickly, and interactively, explore the ways that customers purchase goods and services using cohort analysis.
2015-07-06
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Keep reading and you will see that there is another way to rebuild the msdb database without compromising the master database.
2015-07-02
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Unless development happens directly on the production database, every organization will manage one or more development and test instances. Redgate is doing research to learn how development and test databases are managed within organizations. If you’d like to know more about our plans, or are happy to help us understand the problem, please take part in this 3-page survey.
2015-07-01 (first published: 2015-06-26)
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Consider a situation when you have a large number of databases on your SQL Server, and you are requested to grant user access to all SQL Server databases. How can you grant access to a user for all databases on a SQL Server instance?
2015-06-30
5,795 reads
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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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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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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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
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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When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
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