DataZen Dashboards Update
I’ve spend a good three days on and off working with the new “Microsoft” DataZen dashboard tool and I think...
2015-04-29
697 reads
Blog Posts
Excel in T-SQL Part 1 – HARMEAN, GEOMEAN and FREQUENCY
Today’s blog will be the first in a multi-part series on replicating Excel functions in T-SQL, starting with HARMEAN, GEOMEAN...
2015-04-29
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MySQL TinyInt treated as Boolean
When working with a MySQL database as a source you may experience some unexpected results in your data extracts. Most of the...
2015-04-29
2,805 reads
Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 6.2: Finding Outliers Visually with Reporting Services Box Plots
By Steve Bolton
…………Throughout this series of amateur mistutorials in using SQL Server to identify outliers, we have repeatedly seen that...
2015-04-29
2,413 reads
Rebuild Indexes of database with fragmentation more than 30%
Rebuild of indexes is the prime job of a DBA as heavily fragmented indexes can degrade query performance and cause your application...
2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-18)
17,696 reads
Running Powershell scripts remotely.
I’ve only recently started to play with Powershell (PoSH) but even I’ve begun to discover what a huge number of...
2015-04-29
1,600 reads
They Can Do What? – SHUTDOWN - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 1 minutesMany times the DBA is faced with the dilemma of granting excessive...
The post They Can Do What?...
2015-04-29
978 reads
Tracking Table Usage and Identifying Unused Objects
One of the things I hate the most about “old” databases is the fact that unused tables are kept forever,...
2015-04-29 (first published: 2015-04-20)
16,361 reads
Using SSIS Lookup Transformation in ETL Packages
Lookup is one of many transformations available in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Its purpose is to perform a JOIN of...
2015-04-29
17,755 reads
Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 52 (“What’s new for Columnstore XE in SQL Server 2014 SP1”)
Continuation from the previous 51 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
Microsoft has launched Service Pack 1 for...
2015-04-28
482 reads
Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
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Backup to Immutable Storage
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