(Tim Wiseman) The best way to understand data is often to visualize it through a graph or chart. While SQL Server includes SSRS as a Business Intelligence tool, SSRS is not always the best option nor is it always avaiable for providing data visualization.
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Creating a User-Defined Type Using Visually or Programmatically in SQL Server 2012
(Rohatash Kumar) Today, I have provided an article showing you how to create a user-defined type visually or programmatically in SQL Server 2012. User-Defined Data Types are special types defined by users using an existing base data type.
Using Hashbytes to track and store historical changes for SQL Server data
(Christian Allaire) Change Data Capture (CDC) is a fundamental part of ETL especially in a data warehousing context. A way to achieve this is through hashing algorithms. Even though SSIS is a great ETL tool, it lacks such a hashing function. The scenario presented here is rather simple, but it could
SQL Server security: The implications of user-defined roles
(Serdar Yegulalp) Roles in SQL Server have been around in one form or another for almost the entire lifetime of this product, but SQL Server 2000 introduced the server-wide roles and security that we’re most familiar with today.
Master Data Services: Changing a model with a subscription view
(James Serra) I have been working heavily with Microsoft Data Services (MDS) in SQL Server 2012 over the past few months, and really like the product. Through my use of it I have learned some tips and tricks that I will share on this blog over the next few months.
SQL SERVER – Error: Fix – Msg 208 – Invalid object name ‘dbo.backupset’ – Invalid object name ‘dbo.backupfile’
(Pinal Dave) Just a day before I got a very interesting email. Here is the email (modified a bit to make it relevant to this blog post).
Calculating Week-To-Date values using DAX
(joshuafennessy) The expression language of Tabular Mode SSAS – DAX – provides several great time intelligence functions. One of those it does not provide though a composite function – like DATESMTD or DATESQTD – is one to calculate Week-To-Date summations. To calculate this type of value, a custo
Bulk Copy – Use BCP from SQL to concat databases
(Linvi) This post’s goal is to introduce you to Bulk Copy. We’ll create a SQL query which is going to concatenate several attached databases and extract the data to an output csv file.
Managing SQL Server Extended Events in Management Studio
(Brady Upton) We’ve all heard about Extended Events and how they can help troubleshoot SQL Server performance, connectivity, and locking problems, but they seem so difficult to implement using T-SQL. Isn’t there a better way to implement SQL Server Extended Events?
Sharpshooting Query Plans From The Cache
(Michael J. Swart) I talk a bit about DBCC FREEPROCCACHE, using the plan_handle parameter to remove exactly one query plan from cache. I also explain why and when you might want to.