Giving a Security Webinar on Thursday

On Thursday, February 23rd at 3 PM EST I’m giving a webinar on designing a successful database security model with...

Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 39 – Waffle Chart)

In this module you will learn how to use the Waffle Chart Power BI Custom Visual.  The Waffle Chart visual...

Permanent Employment v Contracting: How the figures stack up

In my latest learning tree newsletter, I discussed analysing some of the salary survey data that the good folks over...

Error while loading Excel data into database

Issue: I am trying to load data from Excel 97 – 2003 sheet into a database table. I have written a...

How to sign a SQL Server CLR Assembly in Visual Studio 2015

It took me quite a while to figure out how to sign a SQL Server CLR Assembly (like a CLR...

Improve performance by replacing temp tables with memory optimized tables - Part 3

Welcome to the last part of this series, you can find the previous post here (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/denniss-sql-blog-1/2017/02/01/improve-performance-by-replacing-temp-tables-with-memory-optimized-tables-part-1/) and here (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/denniss-sql-blog-1/2017/02/08/improve-performance-by-replacing-temp-tables-with-memory-optimized-tables-part-2/).

Previously we...

SQL Server vNext: sys.dm_db_stats_histogram

Since installing SQL Server vNext CTP 1.3 I found out that there is a new way to return statistics histogram...

External SQL files vs. Stored procedures in SSIS development

[2017-Feb-21] I'm creating this particular blog post more for myself to remember and use it as a reference to related discussions...

Estimated Costs of All Queries

One question constantly comes up; What should the Cost Threshold for Parallelism be? The default value of 5 is pretty...

Penny wise, pound stupid

Growing up my mother used this phrase quite a bit. Penny wise, pound stupid. (In case you didn’t know the...