Insert Stored Procedure Results Into New Table Without Using OPENQUERY
OPENQUERY arrives with a lot of baggage. Try this alternative technique to inserting stored procedure results into a new table.
The Best of Both Worlds: Using Excel and Power BI Together
Excel and Power BI work well together. This allows you to use the two tools together to provide for many types of business workflow and BI practices. You can publish an Excel file to Power BI to share with others, analyse a Power BI dataset in Excel or import either an Excel workbook or Excel data to Power BI. You can gain the workgroup power and business-orientation of Power BI without losing the ease and versatility of Excel. Saurabh shows how.
SQL Server 2016 SSIS Basics - Install SQL Server Data Tools
Step-by-step instructions for downloading and installing SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) for SQL Server 2016.
The Avalanche of Cloud Computing
Today Steve Jones talks about the tipping point of cloud computing.
Purging Old Database Mail Items
Are you purging the old database mail items stored in msdb? In this tip, Greg Larsen shows you how to purge database mail.
Interviews: What is ACID?
While thinking about interviews, Steve Jones shares a story of a job situation he encountered.
Stairway to U-SQL Level 17: Executing U-SQL Jobs with PowerShell
Automate your Data Lake with PowerShell! Learn how PowerShell can be used to execute U-SQL scripts, as well as a few other little tricks.
Investigating the Cause of SQL Server High CPU Load Conditions When They Happen
Any DBA who is trying to find the cause of an intermittent problem with a server or database dreams of being able to use a query or procedure take a snap of the relevant variables at the point when the problem occurred. Laerte takes an example of a slow-running query hogging resources to show that you can run queries when a WMI alert is fired, and save the results for later inspection, whenever it happens.
Searching and finding a string value in all columns in a SQL Server table
Sometimes there is a need to find if a string value exists in any column in your table. Although there are system stored procedures that do a "for each database" or a "for each table", there is not a system stored procedure that does a "for each column".
Blogs
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
T-SQL Tuesday #197 Invitation – An impactful session or two from a conference
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I am delighted to host this month’s T-SQL Tuesday invitation. If you are new...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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SQL Art, Part 3: Happy Easter Fun in SSMS
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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