Database Backups – Back to Basics
Remember When…
Back in late December of 2015, a challenge of sorts was issued by Tim Ford (twitter) to write a...
2016-12-22
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R and SQL Server 2016
Yesterday, I delivered another session for Singapore SQL PASS Chapter. The session titled "R and SQL Server 2016" was giving...
2017-01-02 (first published: 2016-12-22)
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KPIs in SSRS 2016
Key performance indicators, or KPIs, are at-a-glance metrics for simple insight into the business. These are each designed to provide...
2016-12-30 (first published: 2016-12-22)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 30 – Linear Gauge)
In this module you will learn how to use the Linear Gauge Power BI Custom Visual. The Linear Gauge would...
2016-12-21
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Automating DBCC Page
Way back in 2006, Paul Randal documented DBCC PAGE on his Microsoft blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2006/06/10/625659.aspx. In his post, you will...
2016-12-21
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Data gateway confusion
Microsoft has created data gateways as a way that cloud products such as Power BI and Azure Machine Learning can...
2016-12-21
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Run Book, Run!!!
How many of you actually have a “Hit-by-the-Bus” handbook? What is that, you ask? It is a document that explains...
2016-12-21
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sp_helptext vs object_definition()
I’ve been using sp_helptext for years. Honestly I probably end up using it at least once a day. But I...
2016-12-21
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SQL Agent Permissions
Problem
I was contacted by a user asking if it was possible for his team to be able to execute specific...
2016-12-21
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SQL Server and Hyper-threading
This post is about the CPU utilisation in the Standard, Web and Express editions of SQL Server because there is limitation for them. Licensing is given at the end of...
2016-12-20
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Blogs
Using AI to Build Semantic Models, Ontologies, and Fabric Data Agents
By James Serra
(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
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
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Adding Bits I
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Question of the Day
Adding Bits I
I have a table, dbo.bittest, where I am testing an application response. This has this structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[BitTest] ( [insertdate] [datetime] NULL CONSTRAINT [DF__BitTest__insertd__300F11AC] DEFAULT (getdate()), [a] [bit] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOMy application runs this code:
INSERT dbo.BitTest
(
insertdate,
a
)
VALUES
(DEFAULT, 'true')
GO
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