DBA 101: Altering a column
People always ask me what tools I use. Mostly this question comes from the topic of monitoring. I can honestly...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
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Getting Started with Power BI: Setup (Part 1 of 3)
This is part 1 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...
2017-02-02
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Microsoft Data Platform MVP Award
I’m very pleased, humbled, surprised and overall gleeful to announce I’m awarded the Microsoft Data Platform MVP 2017 Award.
This is...
2017-02-02
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Compare Execution Plans
Have you ever wanted to compare execution plans from SQL Server Management Studio? Well with the newer version of the...
2017-02-02
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Speaking at SQL Konferenz 2017
I’m heading back across the Atlantic this February for SQL Konferenz. This is an intimate SQL Server event in Darmstadt...
2017-02-01
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Changing what SSMS opens on startup
When you open SSMS a connection window automatically comes up. Then once you pick your server, connection type, username and...
2017-02-01
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SQL Containers and Networking
I recently talked with the guys over at SQL Data Partners on their podcast about SQL Server and containers. It...
2017-02-10 (first published: 2017-02-01)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 97 (“Working with Strings”)
Continuation from the previous 96 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
After many years of using & fighting the...
2017-02-01
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Availability Group on SQL Server 2016
The Challenge
One of our clients in the gaming industry wanted to set up a high availability solution in their data...
2017-02-01
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Improve performance by replacing temp tables with memory optimized tables - Part 1
There are many cases where you will be using temp tables, and many of us are trying to seek for...
2017-02-01
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Blogs
A New Word: Semaphorism
By Steve Jones
semaphorism – n. a conversational hint that you have something personal to say on...
SQL Server Linux Container Images Got Smaller: Image Size and Startup Time Across Cumulative Updates
This week I was at PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle, and I attended...
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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Question of the Day
Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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