Saturday Reading 2016-12-17

It was my office Xmas party last night so whilst recovering on my settee, I’ll be reading:-
The Most Important Role...

Why I am called BlobEater

It’s coming towards the holiday season for me and I thought that I would wind-down a little with a non-technical...

Power BI on-Premises Production Targeted for Mid 2017

NEWS FLASH: Power BI reports can be deployed to SQL Server Reporting Services web portal.  The production-ready release is targeted...

Unzip Files with SSIS

In my last post I shared how to build a package in SSIS to perform simple file archive (zip) operations....

Locking Resources in Azure

I look at locking resources within Azure as a safety mechanism where it can protect users from accidental deletion, it...

Query Store Database Dashboard v1.3 released!

Next to releasing a new version of sp_WhatsupQueryStore, I just released the 1.3 version of the Query Store Database Dashboard!

Release...

Connecting to a Specific Port–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

Live #SQLintheCity–Behind the Scenes

Here’s a shot from our engineer, behind the scenes of my live talk today.
Tom Austin and @way0utwest live at #sqlinthecity...

An interview with me

The other day I received an email asking for some help with a school project. Would I please answer some...

Master Data Services Error – Missing Temp Directory

I recently had to install SQL Server 2016 again on my Windows 10 machine. This also meant that I had...