Power BI Made Simple
In an effort to understand Power BI and all the products it encompasses, I have made this slide deck to...
2015-02-18
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VMware vExpert 2015
VMware has announced the list of 2015 recipients of the vExpert award, and I am humbled and honored to have been...
2015-02-18
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Triggering a System Center Configuration Manager deployment task
A slightly different topic today.
Once you have built up knowledge, you become the person that people ask to solve things....
2015-03-02 (first published: 2015-02-18)
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Free Video for Accidental DBA’s
Recently, Mike Walsh and John Sterrett teamed up with Embarcadero to give a 60 minute presentation focusing on the skills...
2015-02-18
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Test your UPDATEs and DELETEs before you run them
This isn’t so much of a best practice, it comes more under the heading of being careful. Let’s say you...
2015-02-18
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Clustered Columnstore Indexes – part 48 (“Improving Dictionary Pressure”)
Continuation from the previous 47 parts, starting from http://www.nikoport.com/2013/07/05/clustered-columnstore-indexes-part-1-intro/
This post is dedicated to one of the most complex problems in...
2015-02-18
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The Vacation Conundrum
Would I want unlimited time off? It’s an interesting question. I think I might like something more like a minimum...
2015-02-17
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SQL Code Guard v2.7 released
Hola!
SqlCodeGuard v2.7 is just released.
To be brief - major changes:1. Added command line utility
2. Added scgallow(issue)/scgignore(issue`)to control which issues should be...
2015-02-17
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Last Execution of a Proc
SQL Server is full of good stuff. There are plenty of features to be used. Plenty of applications to help it. And there is even plenty of metadata within...
2015-02-17
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Last Execution of a Proc
SQL Server is full of good stuff. There are plenty of features to be used. Plenty of applications to help...
2015-02-17
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
Forums
How do I connect to a SQL Server database on my ISP?
I've got a web application for my side business. I've added a SQL Server...
Looking for New Blood
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Server-Level Row Counts for Tables and Views
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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