My Learning Goals for 2018
A couple of weeks ago, the SQL Server community had their last T-SQL Tuesday of the year – 97th since 2009...
2017-12-26
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Marlon Ribunal - SQL, Code, Coffee, etc.
Book Review: High Performance SQL Server
As SQL Server professionals, we sometimes encounter some issues that we haven’t seen before or have seen already but forgot...
2017-10-03
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Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
Update: Just getting started with Power BI? You can download the Power BI Report File for this KPI Report. Please...
2016-02-16
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How Much Hospitals Charge For The Same Type Of Cases?
Update: For the KPI version of this report, please check Power BI KPI Report: Hospital Charge Data
How much hospitals charge...
2016-02-16 (first published: 2016-02-09)
2,211 reads
How to Install Microsoft R Server for Windows
Microsoft R Server, or Revolution R Enterprise (RRE) as it is formally known, for now, is basically a platform for...
2016-02-11 (first published: 2016-02-02)
2,976 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Simple Visualization
This is the third installment of our Getting Started With Power BI Desktop series. The first post is about installation...
2015-08-27
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Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Getting Data
Now that the Power BI Desktop is installed, let’s get some data. As of this writing, Power BI can get...
2015-09-01 (first published: 2015-08-19)
2,629 reads
Getting Started With Power BI Desktop: Installation
Power BI is becoming popular for a lot of reasons. Simply put, Power BI is “BI on your fingertips.” Companies looking to...
2015-08-13
1,222 reads
Finding gaps or missing dates in a date range using TSQL
Here’s a quick how-to on returning temporal data set that includes missing dates. Suppose you are tasked to query an...
2015-05-29
16,202 reads
How to resequence column based on numeric prefix using TSQL
Beginning in version 2005, SQL Server is making manipulation of partitioned set of rows easier by using Window Functions (ROW_NUMBER(), aggregate functions...
2015-03-26 (first published: 2015-03-19)
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Blogs
Streamlining Azure VM Moves Into Availability Zones
By John
One of the more frustrating aspects about creating an Azure virtual machine is that...
Monday Monitor Tips: Native Replication Monitoring
By Steve Jones
Redgate Monitor has been able to monitor replication for a long term, but it...
Advice I Like: Art
By Steve Jones
Superheroes and saints never make art. Only imperfect beings can make art because art...
Forums
Think LSNs Are Unique? Think Again - Preventing Data Loss in CDC ETL
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Think LSNs Are Unique? Think...
The AI Bubble and the Weak Foundation Beam
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Question of the Day
A Big PK
In SQL Server 2025, how many columns can be included in a Primary Key constraint?
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