Monday Morning SQL Break – May 2, 2016

Gotta love Mondays.  At least the weather here in Minnesota is clearing up, the last two weeks have been cold...

SQL Server 2016 available June 1st!

Woo hoo!  Microsoft has announced that SQL Server 2016 will be generally available on June 1st.  On that date all four...

PowerSehll : How to suppress the table heading and remove the blank space from a text file

There are a multiple ways to suppress and remove the first line from text file. The first scenario would be writing...

How to Convince the Boss to Send You to PASS Summit

August two years ago I originally posted, Make the PASS Summit Work for Your Employer. After conversations at several SQL...

Remove files from a filegroup

You have a database with one or more filegroups, and one or more of those filegroups has multiple files. You’ve...

SQL 2016 - The Time Has Come!

Microsoft dropped it on us this morning:

Get ready, SQL Server 2016 coming on June 1st
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I read the article and was...

Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!

SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide upgrade of SQL Server. Are you thinking of upgrading...

Why you should think about upgrading to SQL Server 2016!

SQL Server 2005 is out of support and you might be (Or rather, you should be) planning an enterprise wide...

SQL Server 2005 Modernization Checklist

As Bala Narasimhan from PernixData and I discussed in a webinar last week, SQL Server 2005 hit end of it’s...

Power BI Box and Whisker visualization vs. Box Plot chart in SSRS

[2016-Apr-30] I don't work with box plot charts very often, however when I do then it becomes a very interesting experience. First,...