Power BI Tip: Use a Scatter Chart to Create a Calendar Report
The Scatter Chart in Power BI and Excel is very useful chart for visualizing three different metrics in tandem. But...
2015-08-28 (first published: 2015-08-19)
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Blog Posts
Row-Level Security in SQL Server and Azure
Row-Level Security (RLS) is a new feature of SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database that enables data access control based...
2015-08-28
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Sixty Days to Summit–Are You Ready?
In just two short months – exactly sixty days from today – the SQL PASS Summit will begin. Although it’s still a...
2015-08-28
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015 Recap
SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2015 was our 7th annual event, but we're still learning lessons. Here's my official Planning Committee...
2015-08-28
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SSMS’s Clipboard Manager
The other day Richie Rump (b/t) mentioned something called a clipboard manager on twitter. I’ll admit I had to ask...
2015-08-28 (first published: 2015-08-19)
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Using Power BI with HDInsight Part 2: Power BI Desktop and Hive
With the rise of HDInsight and other Hadoop based tools, it is valuable to understand how Power BI can help...
2015-08-28
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Brentozar’s Training: Chocolate & Cowboy Hats Included
It was entertaining to listen to a technical wizard fighting the obsession with waiting to eat chocolate with 3k viewers...
2015-08-27
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Brentozar's Training: Chocolate & Cowboy Hats Included
It was entertaining to listen to a technical wizard fighting the obsession with waiting to eat chocolate with 3k viewers...
2015-08-27
206 reads
Does SQLSaturday Increase Chapter Attendance?
One of the big goals for SQLSaturday was for it to be a membership drive. It’s worked hugely well in...
2015-08-27
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Entity Sync Relationship - Master Data Services 2016
Entity Sync Relationship is a new feature in Master Data Services 2016. It enables you to share entity data between different models. You can keep a single version of...
2015-08-27
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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