Overview of the data visualization books by Stephen Few
I recently finished the book Now You See It: Simple Visualization Techniques for Quantitative Analysis by Stephen Few of Perceptual...
2015-04-17 (first published: 2015-04-07)
7,382 reads
Koen Verbeeck
The shaky bug in SSIS
You may or may not have noticed it after installing SQL Server 2012: the designer interface in Visual Studio 2010/2012...
2015-03-24
748 reads
Small presenter tip: changing display mode automatically after presenter view
This morning Adam Machanic (blog | twitter) asked the following question on Twitter:
Anyone know if it's possible to configure PowerPoint 2013...
2015-03-04
684 reads
Solving a slow running query issue with UNION
That’s right! I will solve a performance issue by adding a UNION into the query. Interested? Read on!
I recently encountered...
2015-03-09 (first published: 2015-02-25)
8,816 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #63: How do you manage security
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Kenneth Fisher (blog | twitter) and its subject is about security.
Security is one of...
2015-02-18 (first published: 2015-02-10)
6,684 reads
Author of the Year at MSSQLTips.com
I have the pleasure and privilege to announce that I was awarded with the “Author of the Year” award at...
2015-01-13
515 reads
The mysterious permission issue
As you might have realized, this is not the title of an Agatha Christie book, but rather about some nasty...
2015-01-09
775 reads
Better late than never…
Just like last year, I’m a bit late with the obligatory “how was last year and what is this year...
2015-01-08
630 reads
Overview of Published Articles – 2014Q4
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the last quarter of 2014.
INTENSE SCHOOL
MCSE Prep: Overview of T-SQL Windowing...
2015-01-07
525 reads
Formatting Durations in SSAS: Caveat
I recently published an article on MSSQLTips.com titled Format Durations in SQL Server Analysis Services. For those who haven’t read...
2014-12-22
712 reads
Blogs
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...
When growing companies outgrow Excel
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
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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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