Essential Trace Flags for Recovery & Debugging
The following trace flags are essential for a variety of recovery scenarios. The use of trace flags allow the DBA...
2012-02-20
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SSRS – Creating a Reporting Services Web Farm
Reporting Services performance problems can often be narrowed down to report design or resource constraints and sometimes a combination of...
2012-02-20
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): PowerPivot
Version 2 of PowerPivot (download) is being made available with SQL Server 2012. There are many new features, and my top 5 are:
Diagram...
2012-02-20
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A Script A Day - Day 12 - Granting Role Membership to All Principals
Today's script will grant membership in the db_owner fixed database role in all online read/writable user databases to all principals not...
2012-02-20
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Speaking at PASS DBA Virtual Chapter
I will be speaking for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on February 22nd, 2012. I will be delivering my presentation on...
2012-02-20
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Reconciling SPNs
As part of troubleshooting Kerberos authentication for SQL Server I had to verify SPNs so I thought I’d blog about...
2012-02-20
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A Script A Day - Day 11 - User Permissions By Database
Today's script will return you permissions granted to a user for every online database. The script uses EXECUTE AS so...
2012-02-20
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Sorry...
I've been offline for a week to take some annual leave and recharge my batteries. To make up for the...
2012-02-20
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Will You Sponsor the #SQLPlunge?
At the beginning of next month, a few hearty souls have decided that they’d like to do a little to...
2012-02-20
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SQL Rally: Don't Vote for my Sessions
So I found out on Friday that I am going to be a speaker at the Dallas SQL Rally, which...
2012-02-20
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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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