SSDT all the way
I generally write T-SQL code in SSDT (Sql Server Data Tools) and find that I often publish to my local database instance and then test the actual code in...
2015-02-16
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Blog Posts
Consolidating time series metadata for users in Tabular
Background
DAX offers many powerful time intelligence functions that can be applied at virtually any level of a date / time hierarchy....
2015-02-13 (first published: 2015-02-04)
6,623 reads
Friday Followup For February 13, 2015
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2015-02-13
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T-SQL UNION Set Operator
T-SQL UNION
Set operators allow you to combine data from two or more queries and return the results in a single...
2015-02-13 (first published: 2015-02-04)
8,665 reads
Choosing a Development IDE for Sql Development
In this series of blog posts, I am talking about how to use agile or modern development practices to help...
2015-02-12
44 reads
Choosing a Development IDE for Sql Development
In this series of blog posts, I am talking about how to use agile or modern development practices to help...
2015-02-12
38 reads
Choosing a Development IDE for Sql Development
In this series of blog posts, I am talking about how to use agile or modern development practices to help...
2015-02-12
866 reads
Choosing a Development IDE for Sql Development
NOTE: THIS WAS WRITTEN IN 2015, it is now 2020 - that is 5 years so please consider this a historical artifact that is probably out of date. In...
2015-02-12
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Excel BI Tip #19: Using the TEXT Function
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-02-12 (first published: 2015-02-03)
7,090 reads
How to configure memory in SQL SERVER ? TIP#83
One of the good sentence I remember “When someone has teeth he/she is not having nuts and when someone has...
2015-02-12
363 reads
Blogs
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,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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