5 Business Problems You Can Solve With Temporal Tables
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It's 4:30 pm on Friday and Mr. Manager comes along to tell you that he needs you to run some important ad-hoc analysis for...
2017-06-20
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Speaking at the Data Platform Summit 2017
I am honored to be speaking at the Data Platform Summit 2017. The event takes place August 17-19, 2017 in...
2017-06-20
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 56 – Rotating Tile)
In this module you will learn how to use the Rotating Tile Custom Visual. The Rotating Tile gives you the...
2017-06-20
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Database Fundamentals #3: What’s In a Database?
It’s worth noting that a lot of people will never need to create their own database. You may never create...
2017-06-20
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Statistics and Cardinality Estimation
Cardinality
This is a term originally from Mathematics, generally defined as “The number of objects in a given set or grouping”....
2017-06-30 (first published: 2017-06-20)
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SQL Server 2017 Concatenation With STRING_AGG
One of the new less publicized features in SQL Server 2017 is STRING_AGG. This new feature can take an expression...
2017-06-20
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How the Initial VLF sequence number gets decided of the default transaction log file
In last three years, I presented two times on the topic Transaction Log File Architecture. During the sessions, when I discussed...
2017-06-28 (first published: 2017-06-20)
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DevOps – Downloading a File from the Internet with PoSh
One of the things we need to do as data professionals is move data files around. Often we’ll get a...
2017-06-19
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PASS Security VC Presentation – The Dirty Business of Auditing
On Thursday, June 22, at 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT, I’ll be presenting for the PASS Security Virtual Chapter.
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2017-06-19
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dbfs – command line access to SQL Server DMVs
With SQL Server on Linux, Microsoft has recognized that they’re opening up their products to a new set of users. People that aren’t used to Windows and it’s tools....
2017-06-19
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(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
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
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Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
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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