SQL Server Pivot and Unpivot Explained
The Pivot and Unpivot features in SQL Server are I find quite underused. For a long time I got by...
2017-05-04
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The Pivot and Unpivot features in SQL Server are I find quite underused. For a long time I got by...
2017-05-04
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Announced today are some really cool new Power BI features:
Power BI Premium
Previously available were two tiers, Power BI Free and...
2017-05-03
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If you’ve read my blog you’ll probably know that I don’t like our lack of forward thinking when it comes...
2017-05-03
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By now you will have heard that the next version of SQL Server has been announced. There’s no release date yet,...
2017-05-03
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Terabytes of data, millions of rows; the entire business depends on this — a database administrator’s responsibility is as massive as...
2017-05-03
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tl;dr; If you are SWITCHing data into a table and the partitioning column is nullable you will need to add...
2017-05-17 (first published: 2017-05-03)
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CROSS APPLY was introducted as part of TSQL in SQL Server 2005. Origionally it was created as a way to...
2017-05-03
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In this video, I show how to enable live query statistics in SQL Server 2016 in order to see execution...
2017-05-15 (first published: 2017-05-03)
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I have been developing software from my early teens and stayed with technology after leaving school. Initially focussing on software development, networking and IT support type roles, I found...
2017-05-03
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Back in 2010 I was inspired by a twitter conversation between Nicolas Cain (blog | twitter) and Dave Levy (blog | twitter) about checking Disk Space & Mount Points...
2017-05-03
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By James Serra
(This is the third post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
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