PowerPoint–My Dashboard and Report Design Tool
At some point I think that I am becoming a Microsoft Office specialist as opposed to a BI Architect. All...
2013-03-20
1,063 reads
New SQLTreeo Version
We are glad to announce that new SQLTreeo SSMS Add-In was published.
List of new features/enhancements are following:
Local storage support...
2013-03-20
958 reads
Madison SQL Saturday (#SQLSat206) Coming Up
It’s coming up in just a couple weeks… the SQL Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin. On April 6th, a couple hundred...
2013-03-20
914 reads
Laws You Break at Your Peril
Laws of Thermodynamics
TANSTAAFL
Gods of the Copybook Headings
All magic comes with a price
Winter Is Coming
My adult years started with a pretty...
2013-03-20
869 reads
The Axis Of Evil
Views, table variables and local variables are great in terms of programming principles.
But In terms of performance, they can be...
2013-03-25 (first published: 2013-03-20)
2,822 reads
How To Be An Expert At What You Do
Every successful company has them. They’re the lifeblood of their organisations. Linchpins essential to getting things done and doing them...
2013-03-20
1,052 reads
How I used Data Explorer to create a demo
Some time ago Data Explorer, an add-in for Excel 2010 or 2013, was released in Public Preview. In short, it...
2013-03-20
853 reads
PowerShell Usage in DBA Work – Case Study 5/7
One challenge in a super-multiple server (say a few hundred servers) environment is to know what sql services (SSRS/SSAS/SSIS/Engine/Agent etc)...
2013-03-20
1,032 reads
Retrieve unsaved query
I was working on a remote machine and while I was away, the machine was restarted. Lost the scripts I...
2013-03-20
137 reads
Consuming News Through Social Media and Read It Later With Pocket
These days the fastest way, not always the most accurate, to get news is through social media. Technology, sports, politics,...
2013-03-20
1,101 reads
Blogs
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
By Steve Jones
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after...
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Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers