MVP 2016!!!

Dear All,

Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions...

MVP 2016!!!

Dear All,Very happy to share the news that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for my contributions to SQL Server Community in 2016!!!. This is an...

Professional SSRS 2016 Book Preview Posts

This page is a table of contents for for several new and forthcoming posts.  I’m posting a series of excerpts...

Adding Application Name to Invoke-SqlCmd2

In a previous post, I expressed some frustration over Invoke-SqlCmd not setting an Application Name for its ODBC connection, leaving us with the generic .NET SqlClient Library when looking at active sessions...

Easy Database Space with dbatools

One of the things that I’ve seen DBAs query for is free space in a database. In fact, this is...

Friday Reading 2017-01-20

Been an interesting week! My site has had the most views ever (so chuffed) and during all that I’ve been...

Implementing Fuzzy Sets in SQL Server, Part 7: The Significance of Fuzzy Stats

By Steve Bolton
…………In the world of fuzzy sets and imprecision modeling, the concept of cardinality takes on new shades of...

Installing dbatools on WS2012 R2

This is actually a simple, short post, but writing helps me remember things, and since I had to learn this,...

MVPs

I was having a conversation with Oracle professionals the other day and they started to discuss the Oracle ACE program...

The most underrated show on Data Platform – SQL Unplugged

I would like to write a blog post about by far the most underrated online show about Data Platform – SQL...