SSAS – Automatic Inventory Generation – 24 Columns – HTML Attachment
Inventory is a vital information,whether you’re a consultant or an in-house DBA, you need to have a reliable inventory of...
2013-06-18
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Prashanth Jayaram
SQLCMD – Explicit and Implicit calls – Examples
The scripting variables can be defined explicitly by using the setvar command or implicitly by using the sqlcmd -v option....
2013-06-12
1,873 reads
SSAS Cube Backup strategies and Step by Step approach to setup and configure backup
There are different ways to take Cube database backups.
SQL Agent JobXMLA script for backupROBOT jobASCMD commandSSIS PackageSSIS packageAMO (Analysis Management...
2013-06-11 (first published: 2013-06-05)
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PowerShell – Identify Service Account & Other Details of SQL Services – Multi Server Script
One of my friend requested me to give a mutli server script to pull SQL Service related details. Here is...
2013-06-10
1,739 reads
SQL- Setup and Configure Backup Report – Step by Step Approach – All listed SQL Instances
One of SQL enthusiast asked me to include the complete code and wanted to schedule a SQL job. I’m trying...
2013-05-30
1,537 reads
SQL – SQL Server Script to Iterate and Pull Data from All SQL Instances – Database Backup
This Post is a continuation of my previous post. Many times, there is a difficulty in pulling the data to...
2013-05-24
1,094 reads
SQL – SQL Server Script to Iterate through All SQL Instances – Example Transaction Log Shrinking
There are many ways to execute SQL’s or T-SQL’s across listed SQL Instances. Most of us might have faced and...
2013-05-20
1,862 reads
PowerSQL – Find Size, Name, LastAccess and Last Modified time of all bak files across ALL Servers
We came across a scenario where database bak files being created from long time which are no more in use...
2013-05-17 (first published: 2013-05-13)
2,443 reads
Bill Gate’s speech
One of my friend shared this content. I’m just sharing with you all.Good one and I like it pretty much!!!!Bill...
2013-05-16
613 reads
SSAS – Find Cube Database Name, Size,Status and Total Size of SSAS Server
We are planning to take SSAS cube database backup since our backup tool does full file system backup in case...
2013-05-15
10,869 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers