BI Andy Brown in BI Using the FILTER Function in DAX In the previous article of this series, Andy Brown of Wise Owl Training explained how to use the oh-so-important CALCULATE... 17 April 2019 13 min read
BI Dennes Torres in BI Power BI and The Matrix: A Challenge The Matrix is one of the many built-in visualizations found in Power BI. While the Matrix is easy to populate,... 15 April 2019 14 min read
BI Gogula Aryalingam in BI The BI Journey: The Expert’s Advice – Part 2 A BI project should return value to the company quickly, not only after months or even years of work. In... 15 April 2019 13 min read
Performance Samir Behara in Performance Designing Highly Scalable Database Architectures While architecting cloud native applications, you need to ensure that your system is highly available, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and... 09 April 2019 13 min read
BI Kathi Kellenberger in BI SSRS Setup Guide: Install & Configure Reporting Install and configure SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) step by step. Covers architecture, security, report development tools, and deployment for... 08 April 2019 16 min read
T-SQL Programming Mala Mahadevan in T-SQL Programming Converting a History Table into a System-Versioned Temporal Table Temporal tables were introduced with SQL Server 2016. To take advantage of this feature, you might start fresh with a... 13 March 2019 15 min read
Editorials Kendra Little in Editorials Why You Shouldn’t Hardcode the Current Database Name in Your Views, Functions, and Stored Procedures “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things” Phil Karlton I’m terrible at naming... 12 March 2019 4 min read
Database Administration Greg Larsen in Database Administration SQL Server Resumable Online Index Rebuild: Pause and Resume Index Operations SQL Server 2017 introduced resumable online index rebuilds - pause and resume large index operations without losing progress. SQL Server... 05 March 2019 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming SQL Server Inline Indexes: Add Indexes to Table Variables and UDTTs SQL Server inline indexes let you define clustered, nonclustered, and filtered indexes directly in CREATE TABLE syntax for table variables,... 26 February 2019 13 min read
Data Privacy and Protection Robert Sheldon in Data Privacy and Protection Introduction to SQL Server Security — Part 3 SQL Server supports partially contained databases. This gives you the option of adding database users with a password inside the... 25 February 2019 14 min read
BI Gogula Aryalingam in BI The BI Journey: The Expert’s Advice – Part 1 Creating a quick dashboard with a few reports may be the beginning of a BI solution, but unless time is... 20 February 2019 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Kathi Kellenberger in T-SQL Programming SQL Server 2019 Window Aggregate Performance: Batch Mode on Rowstore SQL Server 2019 Batch Mode on Rowstore dramatically improves window aggregate performance - running totals, moving averages, and accumulating SUM... 11 February 2019 12 min read
PowerShell Greg Moore in PowerShell Using a Server List to Control PowerShell Scripts PowerShell is the preferred tool for many DBAs when automating SQL Server administration. In this article, Greg Moore demonstrates how... 29 January 2019 13 min read
BI Gogula Aryalingam in BI The BI Journey: The Analyst Most organizations today understand the value of analysing their data. In some cases, they haven’t realized the value or are... 21 January 2019 15 min read
BI Andy Brown in BI DAX CALCULATE & VALUES Functions Explained Understand the DAX CALCULATE and VALUES functions with practical examples. Learn filter context, ALL function, and how to build percentage... 14 January 2019 21 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Empty Thoughts: Working with NULL Whether or not to have NULLable columns in a table can be a religious debate, and how missing data is... 10 January 2019 12 min read
Database Administration Greg Larsen in Database Administration Protecting SQL Server Data Using Static Data Masking In order to protect data and comply with regulations such as the GDPR and HIPAA, databases used by developers and... 07 January 2019 19 min read
Data Privacy and Protection Robert Sheldon in Data Privacy and Protection Introduction to SQL Server Security — Part 1 Security is often considered the most important of a database administrator's responsibilities. SQL Server has many powerful features for security... 31 December 2018 14 min read
BI Andy Brown in BI Creating DAX Measures in Power BI: Calculated Fields, Time Intelligence, and CALCULATE Learn to create DAX measures in Power BI: SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT for single columns, SUMX and COUNTX iterator functions for... 28 December 2018 23 min read
T-SQL Programming Phil Factor in T-SQL Programming SQL Server Export Formats Compared: BCP, XML, CSV, Tab-Delimited Performance and Gotchas Benchmarked comparison of SQL Server export formats - native BCP, XML via BCP, CSV, tab-delimited - for performance and handling... 24 December 2018 13 min read
