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The SQL Server Community Collaborative GitHub Organisation is born
My wonderful friend Chrissy LeMaire and I are the creators of two GitHub repositories for SQL Server and PowerShell called dbatools and dbareports If you are working with SQL Server I highly recommend...
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SQL SERVER Puzzle Playing with Datetime with Customer Data
I am preparing for a professional tour of Europe wherein I am planning to meet a number of customers as part of consulting and performance tuning assignments that I have agreed in early October. I am...
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.NET Core 1.0 Connecting SQL Server Database
Let's discuss how to connect to the databases. In this session, we will connect to SQL Server Database from .NET Core Class Library and we will use Microsoft SQL Server Database Provider named as...
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Creating an SQL Server Reporting Services Matrix Sparkline Report with Data...
By:Rick Dobson || Related Tips: > Reporting Services Development Problem My organization maintains some critical business information in a database on an Oracle 11g server. However, we also have a...
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Introduction to Microsoft R Services in SQL Server 2016
R is a statistical programming language, mainly used for statistical computing and analysis, data mining and machine learning, and it is a very strong tool for graphics and data visualizations. It is a...
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Biml adoption routes
Biml adoption routes One of the reasons I like using Biml to generate SSIS packages is that that is no "wrong" approach to doing so. Instead, the usage and adoption of Biml should be tailored to the...
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SQL Server Career: Gaining Experience
Learning Tree does not employ their instructors on a full time basis. Learning Tree instructors are brought in on an event by event basis to teach specific events in the technology or subject areas...
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Emojis in SQL Server
I blame Aaron Bertrand ( b / t ) and Kevin Kline ( b / t ). Aaron who posted a great #BackToBasics blog about naming stored procedures and Kevin who tweeted about it . It’s not my fault. I had to be...
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This has maybe gone unnoticed since August is usually a “slow” month, but with the August release there has been a major change in SQL Server Management Studio and how it show the Live Query Statistics...
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SQL SERVER Case of Different Default Collation on Two Servers
Along with long term performance tuning engagement, I also provide quick consult (On Demand) to assist with any short-term issue, which might get fixed by talking to an expert. Some of the questions...
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vROps Navigation Tree Tips and Tricks: The Basics
By: Kyle Wassink, Blue Medora The navigation tree, found in the left sidebar in vROps, is the primary way to move around your vROps environment. It is so much more than a simple navigation tree,...
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SQL Server 2016 Sample Workload Tools
By:Rajendra Gupta || Related Tips:More >SQL Server 2016 Problem In my previous tip about downloading and using the new SQL Server 2016 sample databases we saw that Microsoft launched new sample...
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Recover a SQL Server database prior to database changes
By:Daniel Farina || Related Tips:More > Database Administration Problem You are about to deploy a critical change in your application to the SQL Server databases. The code is enclosed in an...
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Using SAS as a source in SSIS
Case I want to extract data from a SAS database file (*.sas7bdat). How do I do that in SSIS? Solution This is possible but not out of the box. You need to install an extra provider to accomplish this....
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通过MSSQL连接服务器连接至Oracle数据库
前言 有很多时候，我们需要mssql与Oracle进行跨库查询或数据交互。本篇随笔将阐述如何通过MSSQL的连接服务器连接至Oracle数据库，并且读取数据的示例。 具体步骤 首先需要到Oracle的官网下载Oracle Client(简称OCT)，也就是通常大家所说的Oracle客户端。OCT的作用就是连接MSSQL与Oracle的一个桥梁，有了OCT就可让MSSQL与Oracle互相通信。...
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SQL SERVER -2016 Wait Stats and Queues Script Updated Identify Resource Bo ...
NOTE: This script will just work fine with earlier version of SQL Server (2008, 2012, 2014) along with SQL Server 2016. It will give the expected results in all the SQL Server versions. This script...
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TRIM function in Sql Server
Many a times we come across a scenario where we get an input string with leading and/or trailing spaces. In such scenarios we would like to store it into the database by removing the leading and...
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How to Find Missing SQL Server Configuration Manager? Interview Question of t...
Question:I just installed the latest version of SQL Server and now I am not able to find SQL Server Configuration Manager. What should I do? Answer:I just happen to participate in the interview...
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How to get Current DATE and TIME in Sql Server
Many times we come across a scenario where we need to get the current Date & Time. There are multiple ways to get this information in Sql Server, here I am listing out few of them: [ALSO READ] How...
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SQL SERVER How to INSERT or SELECT Copyright Special Characters in SSMS?
I answer every email I receive in six hours and that is why sometimes I end up working over 18 hours in a day. However, sometimes I receive emails such that makes me wonder, how come I do not know some...
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