Robert Sheldon Using DAX to create SSRS reports: The Basics You can use DAX to create reports from a tabular database in SQL Server Reporting Services. To do so requires... 27 August 2013 15 min read
Phil Factor Getting Data between Excel and SQL Server using ODBC With ODBC, you can summarise, and select just the data you need, in an Excel workbook before importing it into... 16 August 2013 28 min read
Grant Fritchey Database Administration as a Service A DBA should provide two things, a service and leadership. For Grant Fritchey, it was whilst serving a role in... 14 August 2013 11 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Simple-Talk Book Reviews On Simple-Talk, we like to have some book reviews. Unlike articles, we cannot pay for book reviews, but neither does... 06 August 2013 4 min read
Robert Sheldon Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2012 The columnstore index in SQL Server 2012 stores columns instead of rows, and is designed to speed up analytical processing... 30 July 2013 11 min read
Sebastian Meine Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication by Sebastian Meine Fundamentals of SQL Server 2012 Replication provides a hands-on introduction to SQL Server replication. The book begins with a short... 26 July 2013 2 min read
Dwain Camps Gaps and Islands in SQL Server data The fun of exploring problems such as Gaps and Islands is all the greater when we have a test-harness to... 25 July 2013 16 min read
Robert Sheldon Using Microsoft Excel to Retrieve SSAS Tabular Data Although it is well-known how to create a tabular database in PowerPivot, it is less obvious that there are several... 16 July 2013 19 min read
Phil Factor SQL Server ALTER TABLE syntax diagrams The words in the documentation for the ALTER TABLE syntax on MSDN are accurate with forensic precision, but the potentially-useful... 09 July 2013 8 min read
Sergei Dumnov Creating a Business Intelligence Dashboard with R and ASP.NET MVC: Part 1 It is possible to use the R statistical package to extract Business Intelligence from the data in a SQL Server... 08 July 2013 22 min read
Louis Davidson Baselining with SQL Server Dynamic Management Views When you're monitoring SQL Server, it is better to capture a baseline for those aspects that you're checking, such as... 02 July 2013 18 min read
Feodor Georgiev Collecting the Information in the Default Trace The default trace is still the best way of getting important information to provide a security audit of SQL Server,... 02 July 2013 14 min read
Rob Garrison Exploring In-memory OLTP Engine (Hekaton) in SQL Server 2014 CTP1 The continuing drop in the price of memory has made fast in-memory OLTP increasingly viable. SQL Server 2014 allows you... 25 June 2013 12 min read
Robert Sheldon Using DAX to retrieve tabular data Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), originally the formula language for PowerPivot workbooks, can also be used within the MDX query window... 24 June 2013 17 min read
Buck Woody Data Science Laboratory System – Relational Database Management Systems There is no better way of understanding new data processing, retrieval, analysis or visualising techniques than actually trying things out... 14 June 2013 19 min read
Jonathan Allen Preparing to Upgrade your SQL Server It isn't a problem to use deprecated TSQL features until it comes to the time to move the database to... 12 June 2013 17 min read
Hugo Kornelis Painless management of a logging table in SQL Server Tables that log a record of what happens in an application can get very large, easpecially if they're growing by... 11 June 2013 26 min read
Alexander Karmanov Automating SQL Server Database Deployments: Scripting Details To wrap up the series on Database Deployment Challenges, Alexander takes a dive into the details of how he scripted... 06 June 2013 30 min read
Phil Factor SQL Server CREATE TABLE syntax diagrams Many of us have seen, on MSDN, the heading 'Syntax', followed by a rash of nested brackets and keywords, enough... 06 June 2013 8 min read
Joe Celko The SQL of Parts Explosions Parts explosions present a classic IT problem. How can one calculate such things as weight or cost of assemblies in... 30 May 2013 11 min read
