Hire the Right People
Today Steve Jones discusses the need to hire the people to do the tasks we need done, not the position we filled.
How to Change an Analysis Services Instance to Tabular Mode
In this post I will show a procedure to change Analysis Services instance to tabular mode in SQL Server 2016 if you accidentally setup SQL Server Analysis Services to multi-dimensional mode instead of Tabular mode
Experience SQL Server 2016 in Microsoft Luxembourg’s Intelligent Office
The SQL Server Luxembourg User Group invites you to join us at our next event, in Microsoft’s new Intelligent Offices, for Tom van Zele’s SQL 2016 presentation. Tom’s road-show session highlights SQL Server 2016’s new features: End-to-end mobile BI, advanced analytics, cloud integration and lots of other new stuff will be addressed.
Migrating Databases to Azure SQL Database
Tim Radney of SQLskills discusses strategy and some available tools for helping migrate your databases to Azure SQL Database.
What is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a cloud-based, scale-out database capable of processing massive volumes of data, both relational and non-relational. Built on our massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, SQL Data Warehouse can handle your enterprise workload.
Online T-SQL Scripts and Copyright
The issue of copyright for online scripts is a grey area. If a script is published without any form of copyright notice, most people assume that it is freely available for reuse. It's not necessarily the case.
Top 5 things you MUST know about PowerPivot for Excel
Although quite a lot has been written about PowerPivot and its features, there are certain aspects about PowerPivot that may not be obvious, especially to someone who is new to the tool. This articles discusses five such items.
What's New in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016
Koen Verbeeck provides an overview of the new features and capabilities found in SQL Server Reporting Services 2016.
Change the Collation Setting for Clustered SQL Server 2014 Instance
In this post I will show a procedure to change collation settings of SQL Server 2014 cluster instance.
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers