Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #18
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2013-02-04
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SQL Saturday 220 Atlanta GA
That latest installment of SQL Saturday Atlanta was just announced. On May 18th 2013 SQL Server experts from all over...
2013-02-04
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Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Client
A little over six months ago, I wrote an article on Magenic.com about Excel 2013’s Impact for BI Users. This...
2013-02-04
1,409 reads
A Month of PowerShell – Day 4 (Scripting)
Welcome to Day 4 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-04
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Adding the Clustered Key To Your Nonclustered Index?
A colleague of mine was understandably confused when using the almost-perfect missing index engine in SQL 2008. The engine recommended he include...
2013-02-04
695 reads
New DMO in Azure SQL Database: sys.dm_db_wait_stats
I just did a series of Boogle searches and when that didn’t find anything I tried Ging. Neither listed sys.dm_db_wait_stats....
2013-02-04
1,406 reads
I hate Windows 8 and Microsoft Top 3 Mistakes
What do you think about Microsoft new Operating System? I hate Windows 8! This is the answer that many people...
2013-02-04
1,000 reads
Duplicate rows in a table
I recently got the following email:
“I just keyed in two rows into a table with all identical column values. How...
2013-02-11 (first published: 2013-02-04)
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Where Should Database Administration Go?
For the past 5 or 6 years, we have seen lots of innovative products emerged, from smartphone to tablets, from...
2013-02-04
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SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular KPIs
A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post that discusses implementing KPIs in SQL Server Analysis Services Multidimensional. For...
2013-02-04
2,627 reads
Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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