My Learning Goals for 2018
A couple of weeks ago, the SQL Server community had their last T-SQL Tuesday of the year – 97th since 2009...
2017-12-26
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MarlonRibunal
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Book Review: High Performance SQL Server
As SQL Server professionals, we sometimes encounter some issues that we haven’t seen before or have seen already but forgot...
2017-10-03
388 reads
How Much Hospitals Charge For The Same Type Of Cases?
Update: For the KPI version of this report, please check Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
How much hospitals charge...
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-09)
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Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
Update: Just getting started with Power BI? You can download the Power BI Report File for this KPI Report. Please...
2016-02-16
2,166 reads
How to Install Microsoft R Server for Windows
Microsoft R Server, or Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as it is formally known, for now, is basically a platform for...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,974 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Getting Data
Now that the Power BI Desktop is installed, let’s get some data. As of this writing, Power BI can get...
2015-09-01 (first published: 2015-08-19)
2,627 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Simple Visualization
This is the third installment of our Getting Started With Power BI Desktop series. The first post is about installation...
2015-08-27
809 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Installation
Power BI is becoming popular for a lot of reasons. Simply put, Power BI is “BI on your fingertips.” Companies looking to...
2015-08-13
1,220 reads
Finding gaps or missing dates in a date range using TSQL
Here’s a quick how-to on returning temporal data set that includes missing dates. Suppose you are tasked to query an...
2015-05-29
16,196 reads
How to resequence column based on numeric prefix using TSQL
Beginning in version 2005, SQL Server is making manipulation of partitioned set of rows easier by using Window Functions (ROW_NUMBER(), aggregate functions...
2015-03-26 (first published: 2015-03-19)
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Blogs
Running SQL Server on KubeVirt – Getting Started
With all the changes that have happened with VMware since the Broadcom acquisition I...
Why is shrinking IT budgets a good thing?
Each year around this time, companies enter the familiar ritual of budgeting. For many,...
Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
Forums
Best analysis approach to reduce data type length in multiple tables
Hello SSC, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season! I...
Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers