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)
2,210 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)
2,974 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)
2,625 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
1,219 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
16,178 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
The fundamental requirements of a reporting system
By ChrisJenkins
There are some fundamental boxes that your reporting system must tick. ✅ The figures...
Seeing the Bigger Picture: How A Monitoring Tool Changed My Approach to Estate Management
By Chris Yates
When it comes to managing complex database environments, having the right monitoring solution is...
Check Power BI report interactions with Semantic Link Labs
It can be tedious to check what visual interactions have been configured in a...
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SQL MI Next-gen general purpose tier
Has anyone used Azure SQL MI on the next-gen general purpose tier, Microsoft documentation...
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
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The Last Good DBCC Run
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The Last Good DBCC Run
I want to check when DBCC CHECKDB was last run on my Baseball database. What code should I use?
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