Null, empty string, or zero?

The answer: It Depends.
One of the more common problems I encounter when managing data quality, especially in an ETL process,...

Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1

AlwaysOn Availability Groups made their initial appearance in SQL 2012 and have generated a lot of buzz, HA and DR in one! Even with AGs, still integral to your...

Designing for offloaded log backups in AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1

AlwaysOn Availability Groups made their initial appearance in SQL 2012 and have generated a lot of buzz, HA and DR...

Very useful SET XACT_ABORT TIP#94

SET XACT_ABORT is one of the hidden gem we can say. It is helpful in many ways.
Let me explain by...

Best of PASS Summit 2014: Building Bullet-Resistant SSIS Packages

This week, PASS announced the Best of PASS Summit 2014, a collection of the 10 highest-rated sessions from last fall’s...

Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 50 (“Columnstore IO”)

Continuation from the previous 49 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
This blogpost is focused on the reading part of the IO subsystem...

Hello SQL Server world!

Hi folks! Look, my very first post, yay!
I’ve been thinking about starting my own SQL-related blog for a long time and I guess...

Toggle Functionality Looses In excel--ssrs 2005

Hi Folks

Highlighting on the issue that I faced last week while working on reporting services 2005.

Requirement :- A data region (table)...

Best of PASS Summit 2014

I am very proud to announce that one of my PASS Summit 2014 sessions was selected as one of the Top 10...

Power Query – Controlling M Query Functions with User Driven Parameters

Have you ever had a user run a query against one of your largest tables only for them to immediately...