The Dead Tree Database
“We have all of that information. It’s in a database in my office.” This phrase was music to my ears....
2017-04-27 (first published: 2017-04-17)
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Blog Posts
Thoughts about the Microsoft Data Amp Announcements
Microsoft conducted a live event called Microsoft Data Amp to announce a number of key features and releases for SQL...
2017-04-27 (first published: 2017-04-20)
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Pausing index rebuilds in SQL Server 2017
Last week Microsoft confirmed that the name of SQL vNext will indeed be SQL Server 2017. I was looking through...
2017-04-26
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 47 – Line Dot Chart)
In this module you will learn how to use the Line Dot Chart Power BI Custom Visual. The Line Dot...
2017-04-26 (first published: 2017-04-18)
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PowerShell Function – Validating a Parameter Depending On A Previous Parameter’s Value
I was chatting on the SQL Community Slack with my friend Sander Stad b | t about some functions he is writing for...
2017-04-26
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QA, Utility Databases, and Job Executions
Sometimes we, as data professionals, have to think outside the box. I know, crazy idea right? Each shop and situation...
2017-04-26
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Query tuning 101: What’s a probe residual?
Query tuning is an important process that will probably never go away and sharpening your tuning skills is always a...
2017-04-26 (first published: 2017-04-17)
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Something something Production something something you idiot
You’re reading this series of posts because you want to learn about databases and how to use them. What you...
2017-04-26
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Something you didn't know about validating full-text indexing
My favourite way to compare technical experience with others is to ask them about the ways in which something can...
2017-04-26
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Speaking at the SSWUG 2017 Spring Virtual Conference
On May 2, 2017, I’ll be giving two talks at the SSWUG 2017 Virtual Conference. Here are the talks:
Building a...
2017-04-26
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Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers