Audit Domain Group and User Permissions
No matter how simple the task or how versed we are with doing a security audit, it seems like we...
2017-12-29
1,001 reads
Power BI Sankey Chart: a case to review your Budget books
(2017-Dec-29) Sankey diagram (chart), named after Matthew H Riall Sankey, is a good visualization tool for information flow within a system....
2017-12-29
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Presentations & Blogging of 2017 in Review
And here comes the 5th time I am reviewing what happened on the presentation an blogging side of my life,...
2017-12-29
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Columnstore Indexes – part 117 (“Clustered vs Nonclustered”)
Continuation from the previous 116 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
An important issue I have faced already...
2017-12-29
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RegEx in SSMS: A gift for quick code
I had yet another example of how beautiful Regular Expressions can be in SQL coding today, and so I thought...
2017-12-28
725 reads
Some New Cool Features in SSMS
SSMS new versions come up with some cool features. The new features provide support for the SQL Server 2008 databases and onward. Vulnerability Assessment (active from SSMS 17.4) Right...
2017-12-28
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Some New Cool Features in SSMS
SSMS new versions come up with some cool features. The new features provide support for the SQL Server 2008 databases and onward. Vulnerability Assessment (active from SSMS 17.4) Right...
2017-12-28
26 reads
Some New Cool Features in SSMS
SSMS new versions come up with some cool features. The new features provide support for the SQL Server 2008 databases...
2017-12-28
930 reads
Speaking in 2017
I’m done. No more trips (and no more time) to hit any events this year. As I wrote recently, I’m...
2017-12-28
637 reads
Correlate Trace and XE Events
Several years back, when Extended Events was brand new, it was downright painful to try and convert the classic Profiler or Server Side trace to something meaningful and useful...
2017-12-28
8 reads
Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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Checking the Error Log II
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