PASS Summit 2015
Yes, it is that time of the year again. You know, when all the nut case and normal SQL Server...
2015-10-19
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Working with “special” names
What do you do when you need to use a special character in a name? Well, I guess I should...
2015-10-22 (first published: 2015-10-19)
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First Day as DBA - Now What?
It's your first day at Corp of
America as DBA. The old DBA left. The sysadmins are managing the SQL Servers.
And...
2015-10-23 (first published: 2015-10-19)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 69 (“Operational Analytics – Disk Based”)
Continuation from the previous 68 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/.
This blogpost is dedicated to one of...
2015-10-18
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The Whirlwind That Is October – Part 2
October has been such a whirlwind of PASS activity for me. Two SQL Saturdays and the PASS Summit. This post...
2015-10-18
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Step by Step SSIS Multicast Transformation TIP #121
Dear Friends,
This is another post in the series of step by step SSIS ,Zero to hero series. In this post...
2015-10-18
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Step by Step SSIS–Derived Column Transformation TIP # 120
Dear Friends,
In the series of Step by Step SSIS , Zero to Hero in SSIS this is another post in which...
2015-10-22 (first published: 2015-10-18)
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SQL Saturday #437–Boston BI Edition 2015–You Can Still Analyze Data with T-SQL
Thanks for attending my session on analyzing data with TSQL. I hope you learned something you can take back and...
2015-10-17
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Step by Step SSIS–Union ALL tip # 119
Dear All,
In the series of zero to hero SSIS series this is one of the simplest transformation control which...
2015-10-17
1,134 reads
Goodness-of-Fit Testing with SQL Server, part 1: The Simplest Methods
By Steve Bolton
…………In the last series of mistutorials I published in this amateur SQL Server blog, the outlier detection methods...
2015-10-21 (first published: 2015-10-17)
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Blogs
Wait… Could This Be the End of Index Maintenance?
While attending SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, there were a lot of announcements...
Copilot on the Power BI Report Canvas vs. Modern Report Builder
By James Serra
(This is the second post in a three-part series on how AI is changing...
The #MS_DatabaseConnector## Role: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had seen these roles in various instances, but never dug into the new...
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SQL Server Audit Failures
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