Monday Coffee 2016-11-28

MCSA SQL Server 2016
The new SQL 2016 MCSA exams are out and joy of joys, the DBA path no longer...

How to Change an Analysis Services Instance to Tabular Mode

One of my client accidentally set up an SQL Server Analysis Services in multi-dimensional mode instead of Tabular mode. In this...

Bree's first blog post... Amazing training deals

Gethyn will be getting me to update this every week, there are some awesome training deals available for £750 + VAT....

A DBA’s Developer Experience and After-Thoughts

After 10+ years of a dedicated DBA, for the past 17 months, I have purposely chosen to work as a...

Columnstore Indexes – part 92 (“Lobs”)

Continuation from the previous 91 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
Since the very first version of the...

Why Do People Think Dynamic Data Masking is a Good Idea? - SQL SERVER 2016 #5

Data security is always one of the important points which can not be ignored. Nowadays if you are working for...

Data Channel - Launch

Dear All,

I am starting a YouTube channel for SQL Server and Microsoft Data Platform Technologies called "Data Channel". What this...

Change the Collation Setting for Clustered SQL Server 2014 Instance

One of our SQL Server 2014 clusters was installed and after the install, my client told me that we are...

Don't Count on Me

This post is in support of Tim Ford’s (blog|twitter) #iwanttohelp challenge. And also written because this has burned me twice in the past 3 months and by blogging about it,...

ETL #73–NULL or NOT NULL and SQL Interview Questions

Today is the day after Thanksgiving. There are many things to be thankful so I decided to write a short...