SSAS #39–Building Optimal and Well-Tuned Dimensions
The Analysis Services Performance Guide from bunch of Microsoft Analysis Services experts have been updated since 2005 edition for 2008 R2...
2014-12-14
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2014-12-13
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SSIS #117–What is the Location in the MSOLAP Connection String
MSOLAP is a native OLE DB provider for Analysis Services
A common task during ETL is to process the OLAP dimensions and the...
2014-12-13
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Azure Columnstore, part 1 – The initial preview offering
With today’s announcement on the availability and support of the Columnstore indexes in the Preview version of Azure SQLDatabase, I...
2014-12-12
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Friday Followup For December 12, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-12-12
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Giving Back T-SQL Tuesday #61
First off I wanted to thank Wayne Sheffield (Twitter | Blog) for hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday party and Adam Machanic...
2014-12-12 (first published: 2014-12-09)
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Monitoring blocking and deadlocking with Extended T-SQL Collector
Monitoring blocking and deadlocking hasn’t always been easy. Sometimes, the tools available in SQL Server are not as friendly as...
2014-12-12
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Preparing a Technical Session Part 1: Picking a Topic
So you’ve decided or perhaps were told to do a technical presentation. If this is something that’s new for you...
2014-12-12 (first published: 2014-12-02)
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Reblog: December 5 to December 11
Photo credit – Husso
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just...
2014-12-12
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SQL Bits – Europe’s largest SQL Conference
4th 7th March
ExCeL Centre in London, England
SQLBits have announced their dates for 2015.
I have been three times and...
2014-12-12
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UNISTR Escape
In SQL Server 2025, I run this command:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C\3068 and good night', '*') as "A Classic";
What is returned? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
A: 
B: 
C: 
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