Reporting on common code smells : A POC
Over the past few blog entries, I’ve been looking at parsing TSQL scripts in a variety of ways for a...
2012-08-29
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Blog Posts
September 2012 Speaking Events
September is another busy month of speaking events for me and I thought I’d share them with you so maybe...
2012-08-29
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Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group to Have First Meeting in October
The Southwest Missouri SQL Server Users Group (SWMOSSUG) is dedicated to providing SQL Server Education and Career Guidance for IT...
2012-08-29
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SQL Audit 302 – Deploying the Audit Solution with Powershell
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. One last post and I promise I won’t mention the word audit for at...
2012-08-29
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SQL in the City – FREE Training
Is SQL in the City coming to a town near you? The events are being held in New York, Austin,...
2012-08-29
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A Novel Workaround for an Infamous SSAS Connection Error
For months I’ve been itching to get the latest version of SQL Server, thanks to the addition of new functionality...
2012-08-28
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Lookup transformation in SSIS: Performance Improvements
There are 2 suggestions I hear about when performance tuning the Lookup transformation on a large dimension table when getting...
2012-08-28
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Minnesota SQL Saturday (#SQLSat149)
It’s close to that time of year again. It’s time for a SQL Saturday in Minnesota and this… it isn’t...
2012-08-28
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) How-To: Check Database Size with DBCC_pdw_showspaceused
There is a way to view the size of a particular PDW database using the DBCC_pdw_showspaceused command via the NEXUS...
2012-08-28
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Please, Call Me Richard
I presented a session at the SQL Saturday event in Oklahoma City last weekend. The event itself was pretty good....
2012-08-28
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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