The Seven-Day Weekend by Ricardo Semler
This great book by Ricardo Semler is something that some of my friends have been recommending me to read for...
2015-08-04
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Blog Posts
What’s the Size of that Index?
I have previously written about finding what the big space consumers are within the database. I even shared scripts in...
2015-08-04 (first published: 2015-07-27)
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#PowerBI Tip: Use the Treemap, Column or Funnel Chart as a Colorful Slicer
Power BI Desktop has been out for GA for over a week now and some of the pro’s out there...
2015-08-03
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Clearing Out a Database With SQL Compare
I ran into a question recently about how to clear out a database of all objects. I assume someone was...
2015-08-03
1,245 reads
Community Reactions to Power BI General Availability
Power BI is released to the public on Friday, 07/24. There’re both free and Pro versions. For full details about...
2015-08-03 (first published: 2015-07-26)
2,001 reads
Consolidating Multiple Data Marts
One of the challenges that I've worked on in the past months involved adapting our technical architecture to address issues exposed by business re-engineering. The BI group at CHC used to assign specific...
2015-08-03
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Consolidating Multiple Data Marts
One of the challenges that I've worked on in the past months involved adapting our technical architecture to address issues exposed by business re-engineering. ...
2015-08-03
612 reads
Differences Between Actual & Estimated Plans
I have, in the past, made way too much of the need for Actual Plans when doing performance troubleshooting. The...
2015-08-03
871 reads
Downloading SFTP Files with SSIS
If you’ve used SSIS for any significant amount of time, you’ve almost certainly run into this roadblock: You need to...
2015-08-03
7,722 reads
Indexes on GUIDs – Not Only Fragmentation
A client called us with the following issue:
He had a table of a few dozen million rows. The table had...
2015-08-03 (first published: 2015-07-27)
2,742 reads
Blogs
Did You Really Name That Default?
By alevyinroc
Ten years (and a couple jobs) ago, I wrote about naming default constraints to...
Monday Monitor Tips: A New Analysis Page
By Steve Jones
We have multiple teams (8) working on Redgate Monitor. Some work on the Standard...
Case Studies: Real-World Success Stories of FinOps Implementation
By HeyMo0sh
Learning any kind of theory is easy, but adapting FinOps and watching it rescue...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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