SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): New Security Features
SQL Server 2012 has many new security features, and three of the bigger new features are: Default Schema for Windows Groups,...
2011-12-23
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James Serra's Blog
SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is a new integrated high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution that provides redundancy within a datacenter and across datacenters...
2011-12-21
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Junk dimensions
Junk dimensions are dimensions that contain miscellaneous data such as flags and indicators. When designing a data warehouse, you might...
2011-12-19
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Factless fact table
A factless fact table is a fact table that does not have any measures. It is essentially an intersection of...
2011-12-16
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TechNet Virtual Labs
There is an excellent site called TechNet Virtual Labs that enables you to quickly and easily evaluate Microsoft’s newest products and...
2011-12-14
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Top SSAS white papers
These are my favorite SSAS white papers released by Microsoft, with many from SQLCAT. I’ll keep this post updated with new...
2011-12-12
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Reduce heap table fragmentation
A table that does not have a clustered index is referred to as a Heap. While a lot has been...
2011-12-09
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Create SQL Server scripts with Visio 2010
If you are using Visio 2010 and creating tables via the Database Model Diagram template, you may be surprised to...
2011-12-07
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SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit
The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit has been updated with a bunch of new content (download it here). This...
2011-12-05
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”) Licensing
Microsoft has posted the licensing for SQL Server 2012. It has simplified licensing: SQL Server 2012 will offer two licensing...
2011-12-02
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Blogs
Stop Using Pandas for Aggregations — Try DuckDB Instead
If you've ever loaded a 2 GB CSV into pandas just to run a...
Understanding Fabric Ontology
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
QUOTENAME Basics: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
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Stairway to Reliable Database Deployment Level 3 – Rehearsing Changesets Across Environments
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Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Quote Parameters
When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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