T-SQL Tuesday #87 – Beware the Shiny New Toys

Today is yet another T-SQL Tuesday – the monthly blogging party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) to get everyone in the...

T-SQL Tuesday #87 – Fixing Old Problems with Shiny New Toys: STRING_SPLIT

Thanks to Matt Gordon (@atsqlspeed) for hosting this T-SQL Tuesday.

Splitting Strings in SQL
A problem that has plagued SQL developers through...

T-SQL Tuesday #87 – New Way to See Wait Stats for a Single Query

Welcome to T-SQL Tuesday #87 being hosted this month by Matt Gordon (blog|@sqlatspeed). This month’s topic is “Fixing Old Problems...

Valentine's day love from Learning Tree...

The latest course offer is in from Learning Tree!! And It's Valentine's Day!
Learning Tree are showing you the love with...

Altering a Job Step on Hundreds of SQL Servers with PowerShell

I flew to Utrecht last week to present with Chrissy LeMaire and Sander Stad to present to the joint Dutch...

Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI

UPDATE: I also published a blog post using a DAX only approach. Check it out here.
Recently someone had a question...

Export All Plans From Cache to a .SQLPLAN File

I was asked if there was an easy way to export all the plans from cache to a .SQLPLAN file....

Implementing Fuzzy Sets in SQL Server, Part 8: Possibility Theory and Alpha Cuts

By Steve Bolton
…………To get the point across that fuzzy sets require membership grades of some sort, throughout this series I’ve...

Improve performance by replacing temp tables with memory optimized tables - Part 2

Follow my last post which can be found here (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/denniss-sql-blog-1/2017/02/01/improve-performance-by-replacing-temp-tables-with-memory-optimized-tables-part-1/), we discussed about replacing table variable by memory optimized table, this...

Lightweight Statistics Profiling (with a potential bug)

The great thing about new versions of SQL Server is the fact that they are packed full of new features...