Monday Coffee 2017-05-22
I hope everyone had a good weekend. I spent mine watching probably the most dismal performance of rugby I’ve seen...
2017-05-22
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Introduction To SQL Server Statistics
SQL Server statistics are often thought of as a bit of a black box, this is completely not the case...
2017-05-22
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Dump Data From SQL 2005 table to Excel 2016
By First looking at the topic name, does the task sound simple to you? Well, I thought so but it...
2017-06-01 (first published: 2017-05-22)
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I Finally Get Cross Apply!
For years I’ve looked at various queries online in sample code, diagnostic queries using DMVs, and the like and seen CROSS APPLY in the FROM clauses. But I’ve never...
2017-05-22
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Learning – Webcasts/Video
Learning for this week. http://www.pass.org/24hours/2017/security/Schedule.aspxhttp://sqlblog.com/blogs/damian_widera/archive/2017/04/20/sql-server-2017-all-sessions-from-microsoft-data-amp-are-online-complete-list-of-links.aspx http://sqlblog.com/blogs/davide_mauri/archive/2017/05/01/pass-appdev-recording-building-rest-api-with-sql-server-using-json-functions.aspx http://sqlblog.com/blogs/sergio_govoni/archive/2017/04/15/pass-business-analytics-marathon-march-2017-recordings-available.aspx http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2017/03/31/the-recording-for-biml-in-the-enterprise-data-integration-lifecycle-is-available.aspx http://sqlblog.com/blogs/andy_leonard/archive/2017/03/14/the-recording-for-the-ssis-catalog-compare-version-2-launch-event-is-available.aspx Free Microsoft books: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mssmallbiz/2017/07/11/largest-free-microsoft-ebook-giveaway-im-giving-away-millions-of-free-microsoft-ebooks-again-including-windows-10-office-365-office-2016-power-bi-azure-windows-8-1-office-2013-sharepo/
2017-05-21
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Azure CosmosDB SQL Server
As you know Microsoft has retrieve the data from Hadoop with by polybase and extended the R language to External...
2017-05-21
440 reads
Power BI Architecture Diagram v3 is Now Available!
Over the past couple weeks there has been a ton of news and announcements around the direction Microsoft is taking Power...
2017-05-19
207 reads
Power BI Architecture Diagram v3 is Now Available!
Over the past couple weeks there has been a ton of news and announcements around the direction Microsoft is taking Power...
2017-05-19
1,865 reads
La La Land Speaking at SQL Saturday #640
I love LA. In many ways, it’s a fun city to visit, and I love taking a few minutes, even...
2017-05-19
769 reads
Friday Reading 2017-05-19
Everyone finished patching all their servers? In-between patching this week I’ve been reading…
Why VS Code Increases my Productivity
Rob talks about...
2017-05-19
386 reads
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...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
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