Altering a column in a large table: A case study

Fair warning, this is a discussion piece. I had a task, I went through several possibilities and I’m going to...

Descriptive Statistics with SQL and R – 1

I started my re-discovery of statistics with an introduction here. This second post is about descriptive statistics – very basic, simple...

Get Your Email Out of my ETL

Question from someone in one my recent classes: “What tool do you use to send email from ETL processes?” My...

Getting Table Change Scripts–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

How to retrieve Cell Properties from a SSAS MDX query using SSIS

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This is a short article where I want to share something I discovered recently. I worked on an SSIS package...

Live From @LearningTree London Backup and Restore - Day 3

This week I’m teaching Learning Tree’s course 2108 SQL Server Database Administration in the LEC in London. Following on from last weeks...

SQL Server CTE – Back to Basics

Of all the fundamental concepts within SQL Server, this one drives me a bit batty from time to time. Think about that statement for just a moment.
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SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 6 (Index Myths)

And now for something not so different with week 6 of the Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server book giveaway.  So far, I’ve...

SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 6 (Index Myths)

And now for something not so different with week 6 of the Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server book giveaway.  So far, I’ve sent out five copies of the book based on comments from...

Using the new SQLServer Powershell module to get SQL Agent Job Information

So with the July Release of SSMS everything changed for using PowerShell with SQL. You can read the details here...