Using Power BI and SSRS for visualizing SQL Server and R data (Part 4)
Visualizing data is important part to understanding the dataset that we are trying to analyses and a different, pictoral view of the data. Instead of a tabular/matrix view or numerical views, a...
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(This is a guest blog post by SQL DBA and blogger Daniel Jones .) Microsoft SQL Server Backup Error Code 3241 Restore Headeronly Sometimes, the users of MS SQL server faced an error when they try to...
View ArticleThe Two Best Things Paul Randal Taught Me #DevIntersection #SQLintersection
Several years back, I had the pleasure of working with Paul Randal ( blog @PaulRandal ) first in the Microsoft Certified Master program, and then later at SQLskills with Paul & Kim. I had a...
View Articlexp_cmdshell copy access is denied
Question:I have enabled SQL Server xp_cmdshell to initiate a copy command. The xp_cmdshell copy command will copy a file on the local server and copy to a network destination. The xp_cmdshell command...
View ArticleHack-Attaching a SQL Server database with NORECOVERY
Let me just startthis post with a huge disclaimer/warning: what I'm about to show you in this post is NOT SUPPORTED by Microsoft at all. It's a hack , and it might not work whatsoever in your...
View ArticleHappy New Year?
Wow! I can’t believe January is already almost over. We hit the ground running this year with honing our focus as a company, taking care of our existing customers, and onboarding new ones. In 2016, we...
View ArticleAnalysis Services Tabular: Introduction to a Series
Introduction This is the first in a series of blog posts related to work done at a global client operating in the reinsurance industry. The object of this series is to describe the challenges posed and...
View ArticleWhen Always On Isn’t: Handling Outages in Your Application
Today’s brief Stack Overflow outage reminded me of something I’ve always wanted to blog about: Stack Overflow is in limp-home mode There’s agray bar across the top that says, “This site is currently in...
View ArticleSQL Server Exam 70-761 study material for Querying Data with Transact-SQL
By:Daniel Calbimonte || Related Tips:More > Professional Development Certifications Problem I want to pass my first Microsoft SQL Server 2016 certification exam, what exam should I take and how can...
View ArticleInstalling SQL Server Tools to make a Database Connection from Redhat Linux...
By:Manvendra Singh || Related Tips:More >SQL Server on linux Problem Microsoft has released its first public preview for the next version of SQL Server on November 16, 2016. I have explained step...
View ArticleColumnstore Indexes and Computed Columns in SQL Server 2016
You can’t do everything with a columnstore index ― but SQL Server’s optimizer can get pretty creative so it can use acolumnstore index in ways you might not expect. You can’t put a computed column in a...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 Build List
This is a list of the builds for SQL Server 2016. There are other build lists available here . A list of all the builds that I can find and install on my Build VM. If you find a build not listed here,...
View ArticleNearly everything has changed for SQL Server PowerShell
2016 was the best year in SQL PowerShell history! I guess I should have mentioned that here sooner. Wired Magazine recently said that Microsoft SQL Server was the surprise hit of the year . The primary...
View ArticleSSIS 项目部署失败后的解决办法
这两天部署 SSIS 项目时一直抛出一个错误,即“由于错误 0xC0011008 ‘从 XML 加载时出错。没有关于此问题的更详细错误信息,因为没有传递可存储详细错误信息的 Events 对象。’,无法加载包。当 CPackage::LoadFromXML 失败时,会出现这种情况”。下面谈谈部署方法以及解决方法。 这次部署项目的具体方法,是按照之前我写过的一篇SSIS...
View ArticleTransaction log shipping in SQL Server on Linux
SQL Server on linux has been out for a bit now and I’ve played around a little (seehere) but haven’t really used it in “anger” nor will I for the foreseeable future if I’m honest. Nevertheless it’s an...
View ArticleCDC(Change Data Capture) using SSIS.
Now CDC helps in tracking the insert update and delete, but has its own way of denoting the insert update and delete. 1 - It indicates Delete 2 It indicates Insert 3 It indicates values before the...
View ArticleMy SQL logins don’t work. Again.
My recent post on why SQL logins aren’t working has generated a couple of follow up posts. The first one was on how to create a connect item and then this one. It was pointed out to me that the errors...
View ArticleSQL Failover Clusters and You
Failing over nodes with a cluster is a common configuration for high priority application servers. In general, failover clusters group interconnected nodes with centralized software management. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Using Backup to URL in SQL Server 2012 instance
In this post, we would like to explain on how we can overcome the limitation of using the feature “backup to URL” in Maintenance Plan wizard in SQL 2012 Symptoms We cannot take backups from maintenance...
View ArticleQuerying My Named Instance in PoSh #SQLNewBlogger
A nother post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBlogger s. I was looking at some sample code the other day and it looked like this....
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