DBA Question of The Day: What is SAVE TRANSACTION?

 Hello Dear Reader!  I was teaching a class in Chicago last week and I got a lot of really great...

SQL Server – Add Date/Time to output file of BCP / SQLCMD (2)

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PASS Business Analytics Conference Live Blog

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PowerShell and SQL – Easy and Different Ways to Find Number of Rows of all Tables in a database

SQL Example:
DECLARE @TableRowsCount table

(

Tablename varchar(50),

cnt int)
insert into @TableRowsCount

EXEC sp_MSforeachtable @command1=” select ‘?’,count(*) from ?”
select * from @TableRowsCount
PowerShell Example:
Load SQL PowerShell by...

I See BI People

A tweet from Ted Krueger (Blog | @Onpnt) this morning…
I’m surrounded by BI people!!!!#passbac
— Ted Krueger (@onpnt) April 11, 2013

inspired a little creativity…

 
You...

Entertainment for the Traveling Consultant (UltraViolet Review)

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Discover, Diagnose, and Document ALL Your SQL Servers On Your Coffee Break

We all know that we should document our SQL Servers, right? RIGHT?
So let's say you had some time on...

SQL 2005 or above – Find Transaction Rate on a busy OLTP Database

Change Database name of a below mentioned query
DECLARE @cntr_value1 bigint

DECLARE @cntr_value2 bigint
SELECT ‘BEFORE’
SELECT @cntr_value1 = cntr_value

FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters

WHERE counter_name = ‘transactions/sec’

AND object_name = ‘SQLServer:Databases’

AND...

PowerShell – CHECK, START and STOP SQL Services of a remote servers

Replace a valid server name in the following examples. Try to do a testing on your local machine and understand...

Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #6: GeoFlow–The Latest Excel Visualization

As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...