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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...