SQLServerCentral SSAS Tabular Series: 5th Article Cleaning Up Dimensions
The fifth article in the SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Model has been released on SQLServerCentral.com. Please start at the...
2019-02-03
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Generating Insert Statements
G’day,
I been asked a few times lately the best way to generate INSERT statements.
I’d always replied to use SSMS.
I know...
2019-02-25 (first published: 2019-02-02)
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SQL Server Monitoring: What queries should you monitor?
I previously wrote about measuring wait statistics. This matters a lot, because you can track historically what wait statistics are...
2019-02-02
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"A connection timeout has occurred on a previously established connection to availability replica"
I previously spent some time troubleshooting this issue at one client, and then having encountered it twice more this year, I figured I'd include it in a blog post....
2019-02-01
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Modern Hardware with 64 CPUs
In today’s world, more often then not you might run into systems that have large beefy hardware. Hundreds of gigabytes...
2019-02-21 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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SQL Server 2017 Reporting Services: The Basics Part 2
Note: I’ve been meaning to start a series on the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The last time...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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Financial Advice for Techies
I’m not writing a post here on how to manage your money, but I will point you to Troy Hunt’s...
2019-02-22 (first published: 2019-02-01)
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How many plans are in the plan cache for a stored procedure?
It depends on where you’re looking and how many statements are in the stored procedure.
Let’s take a look at some...
2019-01-31
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How Does DBCC CHECKIDENT Really Work When Resetting the Identity Seed (RESEED)?
(last updated: 2019-01-31 @ 22:45 EST / 2019-02-01 @ 03:45 UTC )
Today’s “Question of the Day” on SQL Server Central, Cleaning up the...
2019-02-20 (first published: 2019-01-31)
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Azure Notebooks – a nice little tool.
Gday,
I’ve been playing with Azure notebooks lately and have found them invaluable as
A teaching aidA test sandboxI’ve been using Python...
2019-01-31
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Blogs
How I Built RAG for My Accounting App on Bedrock and pgvector
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Why AI isn’t paying off yet, and what to invest in first
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Flyway Tips: Analytics Platforms (Snowflake and Databricks)
By Steve Jones
I’m really excited about some growth in Flyway support. I’ve been asking about this...
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
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