Creating a SQL Server Test Lab On Your Workstation – Part One, Installing The Domain Controller

One of the most useful tools to the DBA when we need to test new features, recreate a fault that...

Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles

The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to...

My SQL Server Management Studio Setup

We’re all creatures of habit, and work more efficiently when we know exactly where to find the tools we need....

Power BI – Problem, Design, Solution (Folder Source Option for JSON files)

Hello Everyone! In this episode of  the “Problem, Design, Solution” series we will be talking about the “Folder” option inside...

Query Store Wait Statistics with sys.query_store_wait_stats

The second best thing to questions that people ask is when I sit down to write a book. It’s so...

Restrict the usage of a SQL Server Authenticated Application Id

SQL Server login ids may not be the most secure thing in the world but they are likely to be...

SQL Server 2016 – How to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM)?

Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) is new feature of SQL Server 2016. DDM helps in preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data....

SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB – Going Parallel

DBCC CHECKDB has the ability to perform parallel checking of objects. However, it absolutely depends on the edition of SQL...

The Fine Art Of Translation

I remember being thoroughly baffled in grade school by word problems. How in the world was I supposed to translate...

T-SQL Tuesday #097: Learning Plans

If you are not progressing, you are regressing. In the same vein, if you are not learning, you are regressing.
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