Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #16: Exposing “Values” from a Tabular Model
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2014-06-19
1,180 reads
5 Things to Know About Indexes for SQL Server
One of the first questions I got while interviewing for a potential position as a DBA was “If there is...
2014-06-25 (first published: 2014-06-19)
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 19
Below is the chart Kendal Van Dyke maintains for us in Orlando showing year over year registration counts. Don’t I...
2014-06-19
506 reads
SQL Saturday Tirana (Albania)
I’m very exciting to announce that we will have next SQL Saturday event in Albania, Tirana, which is going to...
2014-06-19
876 reads
Reducing the Disk Size of a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Have you ever created a Hyper-V virtual machine and later needed to change the size of the disk on the...
2014-06-26 (first published: 2014-06-19)
3,246 reads
Generating Email Reports using XML
SQL Server has some handy features: one of those features is dbmail, which I tend to use less until I’ve...
2014-06-19
875 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #15: Locking Slicer Position
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
4,304 reads
The Curse of Relational Databases
Let’s face it, none of Information Technology is easy. Oh yeah, there are those few geniuses that have an absolute...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
5,178 reads
Cluster Headache - Applying Service Pack and SQL Fails to Come On-line
Having
applied dozens and dozens of Service Packs to various SQL Server clusters, I
still never cease to learn that not everything...
2014-06-20 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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Aliasing a SQL Server: When it works, when it doesn’t and when it may be your problem.
Creating an alias for a SQL Server is fairly easy and there are several ways to do it. Configuration Manager...
2014-06-20 (first published: 2014-06-18)
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Blogs
dataMinds Connect 2026 – Slides & Scripts
You can find the slides and SQL scripts for my session “Spice up your...
How to Clear the SSMS Cache (SSMS 21 and Later)
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The flight recorder: Replaying what an AI agent did on my SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
“What exactly did it do on my server?” is the first question a DBA...
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Checking the Error Log III
If I want to run sp_readerrorlog on SQL Server 2025, what permissions do I need?
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