Live Microsoft Event - Power BI Dashboard in a Day - Baton Rouge
Join BRSSUG Founder and Microsoft TSP Patrick Leblanc to learn how to use Microsoft’s self-service Business Intelligence platform, Power BI. In...
2015-04-09
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Blog Posts
Moving SQL Server data between filegroups – Part 1 – Database Structures
Why is moving data between filegroups hard?
As a consultant its common to walk into a customer site and find databases...
2015-04-09
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On Automation
I’m a big fan of automation. I’ve been in IT for 27 years now. One unchanging rule during that time...
2015-04-09
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SQL New Blogger Challenge Weekly Digest
Watching all of the tweets as people posted their first entries in the SQL New Blogger Challenge earlier this week, I quickly realized that keeping up was going to...
2015-04-09
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Storage Benchmarking with DiskSpd
As I mentioned in my storage benchmarking post, storage performance is one of the critical infrastructure components underneath a mission-critical...
2015-04-09 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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An Even Faster Method of Calculating the Median on a Partitioned Heap
Back in 2013 I wrote an article kindly accepted for publication on the Simple Talk web site called Calculating the...
2015-04-08
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Excel Tip #23: Adding a Trendline to Your Chart
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-03-31)
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Exploring AlwaysOn Availability Group Template in Azure
This is one of those posts which is due for a long time. I was really excited when Microsoft announced...
2015-04-08 (first published: 2015-04-01)
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How to Measure IO Latency for Database Files in SQL Server
In order to get information about the amounts of PHYSICAL reads we perform on database files, SQL Server exposes a...
2015-04-08
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How to move Resource DB in SQL Server ?
The Resource database is a read-only database that contains all the system objects. This DB included with SQL Server 2005 to increase security of system metadata. SQL Server system...
2015-04-08
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Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)
Disable the sa login in SQL Server (and sleep better)If you run SQL Server...
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Question of the Day
Locking Hierarchies
You have a table [dbo].[orders] without a Clustered Index (Heap). The table does not have any other nonclustered indexes! You rund the following command in Read Committed Isolation Level:
SELECTo_orderdate,
o_orderkey,
o_custkey,
o_storekey
FROMdbo.orders
WHEREo_orderkey = 3877;