Power BI Q&A Preview now works on your data
As I mentioned in Power BI first impressions, Power BI Q&A is an instantaneous search experience that uses a natural language query....
2014-01-02
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Blog Posts
Question of the Week - 2/1/2014 - Question 1
Question :-
Suppose we have to design a database in which employees can work on multiple projects.There are many designation defined...
2014-01-02
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Reflections on 2013
2013 was a year of incredible growth, change, and challenge for me. This last year has been an amazing roller coaster...
2014-01-02
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Setting up the Min and Max Memory options on the fly – Word of caution !
Apparently,setting up the Min and Max Memory setting for SQLServer should be definitely encouraged and no server should be left...
2014-01-02
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Some Thoughts on the Target Breach
Possibly as many as forty million credit cards used at Target were compromised. A staggering breach and a cautionary tale...
2014-01-02
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SQL Server 2014: Master Data Services Backing up your data models.. A necessary evil !!
Introduction
A few days back, in my article entitled ‘Master Data Services 2014: Creating nightly load processes’, I discussed the setting...
2014-01-02
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Things I Learned in 2013
It’s 2014 now. I hope you had fun in new year’s eve.
2013 was an amazing and intense year. To recap...
2014-01-02
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Virtualization for SQL Server DBAs – SQL Saturday Pre-Con Training
My next all-day SQL Saturday Pre-Conference training session entitled “Virtualization for SQL Server DBAs” will be held on January 17th...
2014-01-02
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Welcome To 2014
A quiet and rainy day here in Orlando today. Not my favorite weather, but good for thinking, mostly about what...
2014-01-02
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million...
2014-01-01
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Blogs
Keeping Track of my ConEmu CLIs
By Steve Jones
I use ConEmu for my terminal interface. I’m still on Windows 10 at home,...
10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
Creating a Fabric workspace takes about 30 seconds. Restructuring workspaces after people have built...
Flyway Tips: Object History
By Steve Jones
It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
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Question of the Day
Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers