Power BI Advanced Q&A
What advanced features are available in the Power BI Q&A functionality? Also, how does the new Q&A visual work?
2020-01-31
Additional Articles
Cloning all the Databases on a Server
Phil Factor shows uses SQL Clone and PowerShell to automatically create images of all databases on an instance, if they don't already exist, and then create or refresh clones of each one, on all your development servers.
2020-01-30
SQL Server Attach and Detach Database Examples
In this article Dinesh Asanka looks at how to detach and attach a SQL Server database using the SSMS GUI and using T-SQL commands.
2020-01-30
Removing the Square Bracket Decorations with SQL Prompt
If you avoid illegal characters and reserved words in your identifiers, you'll rarely need delimiters. Sadly, SSMS applies square bracket delimiters indiscriminately, as a precaution, when generating build scripts. Phil Factor provides a handy function that adds quoted delimiters only where they are really needed and then sits back and lets SQL Prompt strip out any extraneous square brackets, in a flash.
2020-01-29
Running Database Console Commands (DBCCs) on Azure SQL Database
Practically every SQL Server Database Administrator operating in an on-premises environment is familiar with Transact-SQL DBCC statements that serve the role of Database Console Commands. However, there are some additional considerations that should be considered when using them in the context of Azure SQL Database deployments.
2020-01-29
Automate SFTP File Transfer with SQL Server Agent and WinSCP
In this article author Joe Gavin covers how to transfer files using SFTP with a SQL Server Agent job.
2020-01-28
Basic Concepts of Probability Explained with Examples in SQL Server and R
Many organizations have known the fact that data have been evolved from the by-product of corporate applications into a strategic asset [1]. Like other corporate assets, the asset requires specialized skills to maintain and analyze. With modern data analytic tools, for example Python, R, SAS and SPSS, IT professionals can build models and uncover previous unknown knowledge from the ocean of data.
2020-01-27
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But the Database Worked in Development! Preventing Broken Constraints
Database table constraints such as foreign keys and default values ensure reliability of the data. In this article, Phil Factor demonstrates a way to find any data that breaks the build so it can be corrected before deployment.
2020-01-27
Monitoring SQL Server with Splunk and SQL Monitor
Splunk is a search engine for collecting and analyzing all sorts of "machine data", including log data and metrics for SQL Server. SQL Monitor gives you the detailed diagnostic view of all your SQL Server instances, and databases. If you have Splunk to monitor your applications and server infrastructure, and SQL Monitor to help you understand the behavior of a complex database system such as SQL Server, then you have a powerful and capable monitoring tool set.
2020-01-24
Prevent SQL Server Blocking using Lock_Timeout
In this tip we look at a way to minimize the length of blocking using SQL Server lock timeout.
2020-01-24
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