Houston Area SQL Server User Group Presentation
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “Scaling SQL Server to HUNDREDS of Terabytes” at HASSUG.
Here is the PowerPoint presentation: Scaling SQL...
2012-03-13
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James Serra's Blog
Data Warehouse Architecture – Kimball and Inmon methodologies
What is the best methodology to use when creating a data warehouse? Well, first off, let’s discuss some of the reasons why...
2012-03-15 (first published: 2012-03-12)
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Power View installation and requirements
Power View is installed when you run the SQL Server 2012 install and on the Feature Selection page choose “Reporting...
2012-03-09
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode
In SQL Server 2008, if you wanted to run Reporting Services in SharePoint integrated mode, these where the steps you took...
2012-03-07
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SQL Server 2012 released!
Exciting news! Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2012 has released to manufacturing (RTM). Customers and partners can download an...
2012-03-06
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Details on the next version of SSRS
SQL Server 2012 contains six new features for SSRS:
Excel Renderer for Microsoft Excel 2003, 2007 & 2010 - Excel renderer will support the Excel...
2012-03-05
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Database Recovery Advisor
Database Recovery Advisor is a new feature in SQL Server 2012 that introduces significant user experience enhancements to the ways DBAs...
2012-03-02
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Extended Events
Extended Events is a general event-handling system for performance monitoring that was introduced in SQL Server 2008. It has a highly scalable and highly configurable...
2012-02-29
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End-User Microsoft BI Tools – Clearing up the confusion
Given two types of underlying data sources (a data warehouse and a OLAP cube built from the data warehouse) there...
2012-02-27
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Spatial Features
SQL Server 2012 introduces several significant enhancements to spatial types, such as support for new subtypes of circular arcs, new...
2012-02-24
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UNISTR Basics
What does this code return in SQL Server 2025+? (assume the database has an appropriate collation)
SELECT UNISTR('Hello 4E16754C') AS 'A Classic';
A: 
B: 
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