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  1. A DBA’s Ethics T-SQL Tuesday #30

    I was in the first few months of my second database administrator job when the CTO told me that I needed to give the CFO direct table access into the database that I had designed. Not 3 months later we were having a company meeting so the executive staff could ...

  2. There is awesomeness to be had at #SQLRally

    Two days of precons.60 regular sessions over two days. The now-famous Women in Technology luncheon. Open access to Microsoft Customer Service and Support engineers and the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. And you’re not GOING? Are you SERIOUS?!? Do you have any idea how easy it is to ...

  3. SQL Saturday Destroyed By Wrecking Ball

    SQL Saturday Phoenix took place last weekend. I went last year and I really enjoyed it. I planned on going this year as well, especially since it takes place incredibly close to my house, but those plans were destroyed by a wrecking ball. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band ...

  4. Process Defrag

    As I mentioned in my previous post on processing tabular models, it is a good idea to do a Process Defrag on your tables if you are doing incremental processing. I didn’t really explain why before. Now is the time. First, think about how the xVelocity in-memory analytics engine ...

  5. Give A Round of Applause for Microsoft System Center!

    I hope you’ve taken a few minutes to peek in on the nice refresh that’s happened on a bunch of the System Center engineering blogs. Good things are afoot there. And if you haven’t checked in, avail yourself of these great resources: System Center: Service Manager System ...

  6. SSAS File System Error

    I received this error the other day when trying to process a particular SSAS cube: Error 18 File system error: The following file is corrupted: Physical file: file:///\\%3f\E:\SQL\OLAP\Data\Options”>\\?\E:\SQL\OLAP\Data\Options BI QA.0.db\Dim Date.0.dim\1.Year No ...

  7. New SQL Server 2012 Book Published

    One of the many projects which I had the pleasure of working on during the second half of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012 was Wrox’s Professional SQL Server 2012 Administration which was just recently published. Now I didn’t write the whole book, hell I didn’t ...

  8. SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house

    Now that SQL Server 2012 is generally available to the public, many companies are looking at the new platform and trying to figure out how to move to it and take advantage of all the new cool features. Unfortunately, some folks haven’t noticed/been aware of some of the ...

  9. SQL Server – Four-part object names

    Generally it is considered good practice using two-part names for objects. It make the code more readable and avoids confusion if objects with similar names exists in different schemas. Some features requires that two-part naming must be used such as creating a view WITH SCHEMABINDING. However, you can also use ...

  10. SQL SERVER – A Brief Introduction to expressor Studio 3.6

    Data is powerful. Data drives businesses. Data supports decision making and fuels progress. But managing data—making data work for us—isn’t inherently easy. And if there is one thing that is certain, it’s change—meaning that data systems created yesterday will need to be adapted to fit ...

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