Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #18
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2013-02-04
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SQL Saturday 220 Atlanta GA
That latest installment of SQL Saturday Atlanta was just announced. On May 18th 2013 SQL Server experts from all over...
2013-02-04
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Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Client
A little over six months ago, I wrote an article on Magenic.com about Excel 2013’s Impact for BI Users. This...
2013-02-04
1,411 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 4 (Scripting)
Welcome to Day 4 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-04
1,002 reads
Adding the Clustered Key To Your Nonclustered Index?
A colleague of mine was understandably confused when using the almost-perfect missing index engine in SQL 2008. The engine recommended he include...
2013-02-04
700 reads
New DMO in Azure SQL Database: sys.dm_db_wait_stats
I just did a series of Boogle searches and when that didn’t find anything I tried Ging. Neither listed sys.dm_db_wait_stats....
2013-02-04
1,407 reads
I hate Windows 8 and Microsoft Top 3 Mistakes
What do you think about Microsoft new Operating System? I hate Windows 8! This is the answer that many people...
2013-02-04
1,016 reads
Duplicate rows in a table
I recently got the following email:
“I just keyed in two rows into a table with all identical column values. How...
2013-02-11 (first published: 2013-02-04)
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Where Should Database Administration Go?
For the past 5 or 6 years, we have seen lots of innovative products emerged, from smartphone to tablets, from...
2013-02-04
792 reads
SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular KPIs
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post that discusses implementing KPIs in SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional. For...
2013-02-04
2,631 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #203: Risk and Reward
By Steve Jones
This is timely, as I’m currently on a boat in the Adriatic taking a...
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
By SQLPals
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later) Updated...
Forums
SSL/TLS Cert Validity Periods Decreasing
Hi, to all of you who are using CA certs on SQL Server boxes...
It's Never Just One Thing
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Calculating Min-Max Normalization in PowerBI
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Question of the Day
Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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