How Stale Are My Statistics?
Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
2010-11-05
11,671 reads
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Return Last Date of the Prior Month
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the fourth post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-05
574 reads
Expression Based Interactive Sorting using Reporting Services 2008 – Part 2 Dynamic Sort By
In a previous blog written back in June, I showed you how to use the interactive sort option on a...
2010-11-04
1,833 reads
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Convert Job Duration to Seconds
Welcome to the second post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-03
1,111 reads
Help! I Can’t Connect to Analysis Services in SSMS
A few months ago, I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 and chose to install SSIS, SSRS and SSAS as well....
2010-11-02
1,598 reads
Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-11-02
2,638 reads
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Convert Job Duration to Seconds
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the second post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-10-29
3,565 reads
Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-10-28
3,338 reads
SQLBIGeek's Function Friday - Return First Day of Quarter
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the first of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. I understand that I am posting...
2010-10-24
1,409 reads
When was SQL Server Restarted?
While doing some performance testing recently and utilizing some of the DMV’s I figured, I better find out when the...
2010-10-21
2,806 reads
Blogs
Speaking at SQL Saturday Austin 2025
By Steve Jones
SQL Saturday Austin 2025 is in just a few days. I am honored to...
Updating SSMS is Easy (w/ v21)
By Steve Jones
I’ve been using the SSMS preview for v21. This is the next evolution of...
Execute Fabric Data Pipeline from Azure Data Factory
In the blog post Call a Fabric REST API from Azure Data Factory I...
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importing from PowerQuery... but with multiple powerqueries
I finally got the PowerQuery source to "show" in SSIS (so I can see...
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The Long Running Backup
I have a long running backup of the Sales database during a maintenance window that is going to take another 2 hours to complete on SQL Server 2022. I also need to perform some proactive work and add another file (ndf) to the Sales database to handle the expected growth of the next month. Can I do both simultaneously?
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