KPIs in SSRS 2016
Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are at-a-glance metrics for simple insight into the business. These are each designed to provide...
2016-12-30 (first published: 2016-12-22)
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Blog Posts
Off topic: The two cycle engine and your career path
I’ve been in technology for twenty years now. I’ve seen hundreds of environments, nearly 300 while employed at Microsoft alone.
One...
2016-12-30
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Performance-Oriented SQL Server Development – The Scripts
Last Thursday, I delivered my seminar, Performance-Oriented SQL Server Development at the Expert Days conference in Israel.
It was a great experience,...
2016-12-30
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Easily Move Databases with Copy-SqlDatabase
One of the things that people have asked to be implemented for many years is an easy way to copy...
2016-12-29 (first published: 2016-12-09)
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How we can determine table column dependencies within a SQL database?
I came a situation during some analysis where i had to figure out all dependency of a column across database....
2016-12-29
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Looking Back At 2016
When this blog started back in 2011 I had no idea that it would continue to grow to where it...
2016-12-29
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Analysis Services and Power BI: Time-travel, Space-warping and Teleportation
As I visit businesses, consulting clients and training classes, to teach data reporting and analytics; there is a recurring conversation. ...
2016-12-28 (first published: 2016-12-10)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 93 (“Batch Mode Adaptive Memory Grant Feedback”)
Continuation from the previous 92 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Given that currently the Batch Execution Mode...
2016-12-28
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DBA Resolutions
It’s said that “promises are made to be broken”. Surely database administrators don’t fall in that category? It’s that time...
2016-12-28
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ETL Error Handling
In designing a proper ETL architecture, there are two key questions that must be answered. The first is, “What should...
2016-12-28
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Blogs
A New Word: Foilsick
By Steve Jones
foilsick – adj. feeling ashamed after revealing a little too much of yourself to...
Accelerated Database Recovery for tempdb in SQL Server 2025
Accelerated database recovery was introduced in SQL Server 2019 and provides fast recovery, instantaneous...
Measuring What Matters: Operationalizing Data Trust for CDOs
By Chris Yates
Trust is the currency of the data economy. Without it, even the most advanced...
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Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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count the number of NULLs in a row
Hi everyone I have a SP that finds the average based on 3 tables. ...
Deleting data in large table
I have a large table with 17M+ rows for our package record audits. I've...