Book Review – Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE
Yes, you’re reading that right. A book not about the Microsoft BI stack. At a project, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI)...
2018-09-26
472 reads
Koen Verbeeck
Community Engagements Second Half of 2018 – It’s all about Biml
I have a couple of community engagements coming up in the second half of 2018 and I’d like to share...
2018-07-31
326 reads
Book Review – Factfulness by Hans Rosling
I recently bought the book Factfulness – Ten Reasons we’re wrong about the world – And why things are better than you...
2018-07-23 (first published: 2018-07-15)
2,658 reads
Installing SSDT for Visual Studio 2017
I had SSDT for VS 2017 installed some time ago, but due to some issues I had to uninstall it....
2018-06-19
3,924 reads
Introduction to Biml – Webinar
On Thursday June 7th I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com (7PM UTC). The topic is Introduction to Biml – Generating your...
2018-05-29
248 reads
Techorama 2018 Session Materials
Techorama 2018 is over, sadly enough. It was a great conference: lots of awesome speakers and sessions and very nicely...
2018-05-25
268 reads
Issue while using SQLCompare against Azure SQL DB
I’ve encountered an issue while trying to compare a local SQL Server database against an Azure SQL DB using Redgate...
2018-05-15
293 reads
Change SSAS Tabular Data Source using TOM
We’ve all been there. You made some adjustments to your Tabular model and you deploy it to the production server...
2018-05-15 (first published: 2018-05-08)
1,913 reads
Connect to Power BI Report Server with SSMS
Sometimes you want to connect to a report server instance using Management Studio, for example to create a new security...
2018-05-11 (first published: 2018-05-02)
4,064 reads
Stop Previewing the bim.layout File in SSAS Tabular
A quick blog post for future reference, because I know I’ll bump into this again someday.
When you’re working with a...
2018-03-29 (first published: 2018-03-22)
1,846 reads
Blogs
SQL Server Security: Always Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
As discussed introduction of Always Encryption blog and initial Encryption at rest as TDE...
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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The Problem Isn't Always Your Query or Schema... Sometimes It's Hidden Assumptions
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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