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...
2017-02-13
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Blog Posts
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...
2017-02-13 (first published: 2017-02-07)
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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....
2017-02-13
861 reads
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...
2017-02-13
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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...
2017-02-13 (first published: 2017-02-08)
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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...
2017-02-13
399 reads
Monday Coffee 2017-02-13
Man, if there was an award for procrastinating I’d definitely be in with a shout for today (I write these...
2017-02-13
306 reads
Open Source Power BI Desktop Workshop
I’ve created a free, open-source workshop to teach people the capabilities and features of Power BI Desktop. I was inspired...
2017-02-13
1,159 reads
The Foundry and Data Masking
There’s a group at Redgate that investigates new ideas and products. They’re called the Foundry, and they do some cool...
2017-02-13
475 reads
Devops without management buy in?
I was talking to someone at a meetup recently who was really keen on doing continuous deployment for their database...
2017-02-10
59 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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