Query Predicates

Sometimes people speak “SQL” and expect you know all the terminology. In recent a conversation about query plans I was...

One Week to Music City Tech

Next week is Music City Tech, a three day conference consisting of Coding, Agile, and Data tracks, takes place in...

Power BI and Data Security – Audit Logs, Powershell, Power BI and @AngryAnalytics

The following has been reposted with permission from Steve Howard a.k.a. @AngryAnalytics. I have made some formatting changes but the...

Convert a Positive Number To a Negative In SQL With a Spot of Bitwise Logic

Now this is something that I’ve seen asked a few times and it’s always a question that gets a fair...

Toolbox - How Long Has My Server Been Up?

https://imgflip.com/i/2axp6yNo..not that Up (although it is awesome!)

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As a remote service provider a common request is to follow up after a server...

Tips for Securing SQL Server Database from All Sort of Risks

Securing SQL Server Database is a challenging task as there are number of external and internal risks or parameters affecting the Server and its databases. In this section, we...

Tips for Securing SQL Server Database from All Sort of Risks

Securing SQL Server Database is a challenging task as there are number of external and internal risks or parameters affecting...

SSAS Tabular – Fact Table Key Columns Datatype Impact

Intro
I’m working on a solution where warehouse uses string codes as the keys for dimensions. Therefore the fact table is...

Thoughts on Query Performance with TDE enabled

Microsoft state that enabling TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) usually has a performance  overhead of 2-4%. That doesn’t sound like very...

Day 23 Replication

Replication means making copy of the objects and moving transaction from primary server to secondary/standby/Slave server. There are two type...