BI Robert Sheldon in BI More Power BI to your Elbow Power BI Desktop continues to evolve. There have been many improvements to the reporting side that together make it easier... 20 September 2016 14 min read
BI Adam Aspin in BI Power BI for Data Modelling Power BI has a lot of uses, but one of the most interesting of them is to model and shape... 16 September 2016 24 min read
Database Administration William Brewer in Database Administration Database Cloud Backup Cribsheet Several database backup providers are now offering ‘Database Backup to the Cloud’, or ‘Backup As A Service’ (BaaS). There is... 12 September 2016 14 min read
Database Administration Shel Burkow in Database Administration In-Memory OLTP: Row Visibility in SQL Server’s MVCC SQL Server's In-memory OLTP is fast, due to its multi-valued concurrency control (MVCC). MVCC avoids the need for locks by... 05 September 2016 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Uwe Ricken in T-SQL Programming DELETE Operation in SQL Server HEAPs You should stick to using tables in SQL Server, rather than heaps that have no clustered index, unless you have... 05 September 2016 14 min read
Blogs Phil Factor in Blogs The SQL of Textonyms The task of finding textonyms in SQL involves importing a list of common words and doing transformations on every word... 31 August 2016 14 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Predicates With Subqueries The ALL, SOME and ANY predicates aren't much used in SQL Server, but they are there. You can use the... 25 August 2016 12 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration SQL Server for Linux Although SQL Server for Linux removes the concern that adopting SQL Server forces you to also adopt the Windows platform,... 25 August 2016 11 min read
BI Adam Aspin in BI Direct Query with Power BI Power BI allows you to connect directly to the data just as if it were a “standard” connection, and modify... 10 August 2016 30 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Formatting SQL Code – Part the Second When you're formatting SQL Code, your objective is to make the code as easy to read with understanding as is... 10 August 2016 15 min read
Database Administration Robert Sheldon in Database Administration SQL Server Access Control: The Basics No technology yet invented can in any way allow us to neglect the task of ensuring the security of the... 02 August 2016 17 min read
Performance Robert Sheldon in Performance SQL Server Statistics Basics Distribution statistics are used by SQL Server's Query Optimiser to determine a good execution plan for your SQL query. You... 22 July 2016 17 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Formatting SQL Code – Part the First With the formatting of code, we sometimes do things because they've always been done that way, rather than making code... 22 July 2016 16 min read
Tools Richard Macaskill in Tools Clone, Sweet Clone: Database Provisioning Made Easy? One of the difficulties of designing a completely different type of development tool such as SQL Clone is that you... 21 June 2016 8 min read
Robert Sheldon SSIS in SSDT: The Basics SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a fast and reliable way of importing and exporting data, but it can be... 20 June 2016 31 min read
Hitendra Patel Dynamic Images in SQL Server Reporting Services It is relatively easy to provide a smart BI solution when your customer has all the resources for a new... 01 June 2016 16 min read
Joshua Feierman 3 Built-In Technologies for Centralizing SQL Server Administration DBAs can be more effective in managing their workload by centralizing their procedures. There are several features of SQL server... 01 June 2016 13 min read
Laerte Junior The PoSh DBA: Accessing SQL Server from PowerShell The worst part for a DBA of getting started with PowerShell is often just figuring out the best way of... 01 June 2016 17 min read
Feodor Georgiev Predictive Analysis Basics Statistics holds out the promise of teasing out significant relationships and to determine cause and effect. Now that so much... 18 May 2016 15 min read
Joe Celko Looking at VIEWs, Close Up Views in SQL can be difficult. It isn't easy to judge when to use them, It isn't always obvious how... 10 May 2016 23 min read
