Analyzing Baby Names using Power BI
Me and my wife are contemplating names for our first baby we’re expecting in a couple of months! We don’t...
2015-06-16
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Me and my wife are contemplating names for our first baby we’re expecting in a couple of months! We don’t...
2015-06-16
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Here are the slides and links to awesome resources for my presentation, “Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others”
If you...
2014-04-29
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When working with SSIS, you’ll often find the need to read the contents of a flat file to a variable,...
2014-04-22 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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I’m excited to present two different sessions in April at DC SQL Server User Group and at Baltimore SQL Server User Group. I...
2014-04-03
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If you’re a data warehouse developer, chances are you use T-SQL Merge statement to process slowly changing dimensions. If you’ve...
2014-02-05
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We all have bad habits. Maybe we eat too many snacks, spend too much time on the couch watching TV,...
2014-01-21
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What's wrong with the following code?
tsqlLine number Off | Hide | Select allSELECT a.[BusinessEntityID] , b.[FirstName] , b.[LastName]FROM[HumanResources].[Employee] a INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b ON...
2013-03-05
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What’s wrong with the following code?
SELECT
a.[BusinessEntityID]
, b.[FirstName]
, b.[LastName]
FROM [HumanResources].[Employee] a
INNER JOIN [Person].[Person] b
ON b.[BusinessEntityID] = a.[BusinessEntityID]Nothing – except for my...
2013-03-05
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When creating a SSRS report, you want to add lines that display trends. You want to show trends for more...
2013-02-26
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When creating a SSRS report, you want to add lines that display trends. You want to show trends for more...
2013-02-26
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By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
The SQLPS.exe file has gone AWOL on 2 of my 4 SQL servers, ie,...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Be Wary of Data
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate, o_orderkey, o_custkey, o_storekey FROMdbo.orders WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;