For Hire: Data Analytics/Business Intelligence Expert
Data Analytics/Business Intelligence Expert Strengths: Passion, great with people, loves to learn and teach Weaknesses: Chocolate, fast cars, death Inquire...
2017-08-07
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TheSqlPro.com - Ayman El-Ghazali
SQL Server 2016: A Comprehensive Introduction – Arabic
It has been over a year since I have blogged, I know… that’s a long time! I have not retired,...
2017-04-26
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PolyBase: I now Pronounce you SQL and Hadoop
Are you interested in Hadoop? With SQL Server 2016 just around the corner, a powerful new feature is being included called...
2016-04-27
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SQL Server 2016: What’s the best new feature?
With SQL 2016 around the corner, and my blog without a post this year, I thought I would write about...
2016-04-28 (first published: 2016-04-19)
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Get valuable Virtual Log File (VLF) information for all your databases log files
I had this problem where I needed to gather Transaction Log information on multiple databases and check for valuable statistics on...
2015-11-09 (first published: 2015-11-02)
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SQL 2016 Row-Level Security Demo: Users with various clearance levels
SQL 2016 is right around the corner and one of the new security enhancements promised is Row-Level security for tables....
2015-10-01
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Another Career Podcast – Working at Microsoft
I have to admit, I had a lot of fun at SQL Saturday in Philly this last June; I mean...
2015-08-07
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Podcast about my career and the SQL Server Community with Chris Bell
During my time at SQL Saturday in Philadelphia (Early June), Chris Bell invited me to be a guest on his...
2015-07-09
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Working at Microsoft – A Year in Reflection
Last year after starting my new job with Microsoft as a Senior Consultant I wrote an article about my interviewing...
2015-06-24
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2015-03-29
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Blogs
Reverse Engineering a Physical Model Diagram
By Steve Jones
I recently wrote about a logical diagram with Redgate Data Modeler. That was interesting,...
Prepping for Certification, Part 3 of ?
By Brian Kelley
After I have understood the details for a certification test (part 1), including format...
SQL Training Black Friday Deals
By Brian Kelley
If you're looking for particular "Black Friday" deals, here is what I've seen advertised...
Forums
Best analysis approach to reduce data type length in multiple tables
Hello SSC, I hope everyone is having a happy and safe holiday season! I...
Do you separate data/log files and TempDB files on different disks using AWS EC2
Hello, I am receiving multiple direction on deploying SQL Servers in AWS EC2. ...
Service account being in local admin in AWS EC2 environment?
Hello, I am working with a company on their database administration. I am trying...
Question of the Day
A New Operator
In SQL Server 2025, what does this code return?
SELECT '1' || '0'See possible answers