Why I still like Excel PowerPivot models in SharePoint however Tabular solutions in SSAS are better
[2015-Aug-12] It’s quite obvious that in present time there is a growing audience for all the latest changes and updates...
2015-08-12
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Blog Posts
10 Signs You’re Enjoying Your DBA Career Too Much
Most database professional recognize they have a good career path, and mostly enjoy the work they do. It’s possible to cross the...
2015-08-11
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CNJSSUG Presents: Architecting a SQL Server Availability Groups Topology - Edwin Sarmiento
Tomorrow Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 6PM EDT, my friend and SQL MVP colleague, Edwin Sarmiento will be in town...
2015-08-11
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Compressing Encrypted Backups
A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a large database backup file, that is encrypted, be much...
2015-08-11
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Compressing Encrypted Backups
A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a...
2015-08-11
3,341 reads
Database Master Keys can have more than one password.
Our subject for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday blog party (#69) is Encryption, hosted by a guy with an awesome first...
2015-08-11
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DevConnections Sept 14-17th 2015 – Las Vegas
DevConnections is a new conference for me and I am excited about the opportunity to present 2 different sessions. The...
2015-08-11
614 reads
How not to do a Masters degree
There are many, many guides to successfully completing a post grad degree, so I am not going to add to...
2015-08-11
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I’m Speaking! SQL Saturday #397 – Omaha
I recently blogged about the opportunity to speak at that the Omaha SQL Server User group. In a nutshell, being a co-founder...
2015-08-11
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Leadership: A Name and A Principle
I’m actively working to put together the leadership course that I talked about here and here. No, not full time. I...
2015-08-11
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Blogs
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...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
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
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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