Enumerate Windows Group Members
Here a quick script showing how to get all the Active Directory users in a AD group.
2017-02-24 (first published: 2016-03-17)
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Articles
Using SQL SERVER and Cloud Hosted Databases with OBIEE 11g
If your organisation is committed to using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 10g/11g /12c as their BI solution, you aren't thereby committed to using Oracle throughout your organisation. You can use a range of data sources including SQL Server, and save a great deal of money by doing so. Sadly, Oracle will only support the use of the venerable SQL Server 2008 R2. Zafar Ali demonstrates how to connect OBIEE to the world beyond Oracle.
2017-02-24
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Performance Surprises and Assumptions : GROUP BY vs. DISTINCT
Aaron Bertrand acknowledges that DISTINCT and GROUP BY are usually interchangeable, but shows there are cases where one performs better than the other.
2017-02-23
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2017-02-22
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Questions About the Use of PowerShell That you were Too Shy to Ask
Let's forget the actual PowerShell code for a moment: Why is PowerShell important? Why should I use it? Where did it come from? Why did it take so long to arrive? These and many other basic questions are answered in William Brewer's latest addition to the series that answers those seemingly simple questions that you were too shy to ask in public.
2017-02-22
7,518 reads
How to Recover a SQL Server Login Password
I will describe a simple method anyone can use to obtain lost password information for a SQL Server login.
2017-02-21 (first published: 2013-03-04)
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2017-02-21
1,281 reads
Getting Started with Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Part 1
As the demand for data analytics grows so does the need for a technology or platform to process large amounts of different types of data in timely manner. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a new enterprise-class, elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse service that can scale according to organizational demands in just a few minutes. Read on to learn more about this data warehouse-as-a-service offering from Microsoft.
2017-02-21
5,158 reads
New CREATE OR ALTER statement in SQL Server 2016 SP1
Ahmad Yaseen explains what SQL Server 2016 SP1's new CREATE OR ALTER statement does, and how to use it.
2017-02-20
5,523 reads
Using EXCEPT to Determine Row Differences
How to use the EXCEPT statement to perform row differences.
2017-02-17 (first published: 2014-03-25)
51,665 reads
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Identity Defaults
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Question of the Day
Identity Defaults
What happens when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest
(
id int IDENTITY(10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
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