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Using PowerBI & MAP Toolkit & to review your SQL Server Environments
This is a posting for T-SQL Tuesday #75 As the SQL Server & BI Consulting Practice lead in a Tier-1 managed Microsoft Partner consulting company www.Northdoor.co.uk , my role often involves me...
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My favourite wait state– ASYNC_NETWORK_IO
Sometimes it does feel that a problem is a database problem until proven otherwise. When this does occur I have had to put a lot of time and effort into demonstrating the hows and whys. One of the...
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A first look at SQL Server 2016–String_split
I’ve been developing T-SQL for about 20 years now and almost since day one there has been functionality that , IMO, has been missing. That is grouped string concatenation (ie forming a delimited...
View ArticleA journey to a movie recommender in U-SQL
I haven’t gotten to involved in the whole “Big Data” movement to much, I’ve kept an arms length watch and played around with a few of those technologies but never really jumped in and got down and...
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.Net 4.6.1 and MultiSubnetFailover
Im not a big clustering/HA expert, but I obviously understand the need for such things to exist However, the standard SQL tooling, SSMS etc, seems to go out of its way to make the MultiSubNetFailover...
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INSIDE-SQL – Why run a conference
Hello Most will know that I have been running Usergroup events on SQL Server / Data Platform for a few years now, the last couple of them as the leader of the PASS London Chapter...
View ArticleINSIDE-SQL Discounts Available
[Reposting of the annoucement on http://insidesql.co.uk] T-7 Weeks – 7 attendees can grab a Monster discount SQL Usergroups After attending not 1 but 2 SQL Usergroups yesterday evening (London), where...
View ArticleExperience Innovative Online Hands-on SQL Server Learning via YouTube
We would like to introduce you to the first Online Hands-on Learning available for SQL Server. Learn SQL Server Internals and practice the hands-on examples shown in the YouTube videos right away –...
View ArticleWhy is creating excel sheets from SSIS so hard ?
If there is one process that should be simpler than it is out of the box, it is creating Excel spreadsheets from SSIS. Over the years i’ve tried doing it a number of ways, using the built in...
View ArticleWho did what to my database and when…
One of the most popular questions on forums / SO etc is, “How can i find out who dropped a table, truncated a table, dropped a procedure….” etc. Im sure we have all been there, something changes (...
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