You can use a host of time-intelligence functions in DAX to calculate everything from simple year-to-date totals to moving averages and average opening and closing balances. In this article, Andy Brown shows how to model various scenarios with calendars and dates, and how to get around some of the issues you may encounter.
Today, Grant Fritchey talks about the two paths to expertise for database professionals and why it’s hard to really know if someone is an expert.
This article presents a pair of queries and reports that reads the ReportServer.dbo.ExecutionLog table to list all SSRS reports that were executed or not-executed in the past 30 days, how many times they were executed, and who executed them.
In this article we look at different use cases for columnstore indexes like when performing SQL Server count * queries.
Josh Smith shows how to use SQL Data Catalog to perform a 'first cut' data classification for one your SQL Server databases, identifying all columns that are likely to hold personal or otherwise sensitive data.
Introduction If you import flat files and use double quotes as your Flat File Text Qualifiers, then it’s likely that you’ve encountered problems when importing data where speech marks have been entered manually. This is a common occurrence in free text fields, such as Name. e.g. Smith, James “Jim” Attempting to import a file with a […]
Today Kendra discusses the advantages of using a command line interface for Git.
How to use reverse regex expressions in SQL Data Generator to fill a text column in SQL Server with fake, but very realistic complaints.
T-SQL window functions simplify solving many complex queries. In this article, Edward Pollack demonstrates how the functions can be used to find gaps and islands in a dataset.
Grant discusses the need for password managers to help prevent security issues between different accounts.
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