Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 117 – Multi KPI)
In this module you will learn how to use the Multi KPI. The Multi KPI is great for displaying multiple...
2018-08-29
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Delayed durability, the TURBO button for your transaction log
As noted in the previous post, this month I got my learn on at Tech Outbound’s SQL Cruise Alaska. Which was awesome in so many ways, but I’m only...
2018-08-29
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MAXDOP Calculator
Every time I conduct a SQL Server health check, it’s pretty common for me to find wrong configurations at instance...
2018-08-28
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What is Automatic Tuning in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has long given us DBA tools and suggestions to help tune databases, to fix queries with indexes, and many...
2018-08-28
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How Do Azure Accounts and Subscriptions Work Together?
Azure accounts vs. Azure subscriptions – often a topic that brings some confusion to Azure newbies. Are they the same? What’s...
2018-08-28
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Upcoming Performance Tuning Webcast
On September 13, 2018, at 3 PM Eastern (USA), I’ll be giving a webcast for MSSQLTips.com on finding and correcting...
2018-08-28
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Redgate Lives DevOps
At Redgate, we release a lot of changes to our products. In fact, this is the “About Redgate” slide I’ve...
2018-08-28
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Generating a Constrained Random Date–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube.
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the “first value in an...
2018-08-28
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Ignoring NULLs with FIRST_VALUE
Watch this week's video on YouTube
The SQL Server FIRST_VALUE function makes it easy to return the "first value in an ordered set of values."
The problem is that if that...
2018-08-28
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Blogs
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
The first version of my accounting assistant could not find a single purchase of...
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Slow - Linked server query
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Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers