SQL Server PDW the Microwave of BI
The Path to the PDW
For decades we had the traditional electric oven to cook with and people thought it was...
2014-02-08
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Blog Posts
Friday Followup For February 7, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-02-07
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MDX+SSAS #37–Ignore unrelated dimension or not
In Adventure Works cube 2008 or 2012, in the Dimension Usage tab, you will see that many intercepts of measure...
2014-02-07
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Nadella, Gates: Right Team For Microsoft? – InformationWeek
Does the pairing of Nadella and Gates foretell Microsoft’s return to glory or a new era of dysfunction? Take a...
2014-02-07
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Parent-Child SSIS Architecture
This is the first in a series of technical posts on using parent-child architectures in SQL Server Integration Services. The...
2014-02-07
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Reblog: January 31 to February 6
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-02-07
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Speaker of the Month, February 2014
I didn’t get out to many events in January, so I was somewhat limited in the pool of presenters that...
2014-02-07
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SQL Deep Dives at Intersection in April
SQL Intersection is coming to Orlando in April, along with the rest of the Dev Intersection events the week of...
2014-02-07 (first published: 2014-02-04)
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Top 10 Process Listing By Memory Consumption – GUI Tool
This Powershell GUI tool is used to list Top 10 memory consumption process of a given computer[local /Remote]. In the...
2014-02-07
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T-SQL Tuesday #051: Place Your Bets
Place Your Bets
All bets on the table please. This is the last call for bets, no new bets will be...
2014-02-07 (first published: 2014-02-04)
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
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