Failed Installation of SQL Server Cumulative Updates Debugged
Background
Our customer has recently experienced an issue during the installation of the latest cumulative updates in their SQL Server environment....
2018-11-05
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DAX – Cumulative Total and Blank Handling
When developing DAX measure, you should be aware that Blank value behavior might be similarly insidious as NULL value in...
2018-10-23
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Internal Query Processor Error Debugged
In Joyful Craftsmen we provide, among other things, technical support to our customers, which from time to time involves us...
2018-10-16
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CCI – Data Loading considerations with Partitioned Tables and CCI
Introduction
In this blog post, I would like to describe two case scenarios of bulk loading data, using SSIS, into a...
2018-10-10
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CCI Bulk Load Pitfalls 2 – Parametrization of Dynamic SQL
Intro
In the last blog I showed how important statistics are for CCI bulk load even on small tables. This time...
2018-09-26
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CCI – How to load data for better Columnstore Segment Elimination
Introduction
In this blog post, I would like to explain what a columnstore segment elimination is and how to load data...
2018-09-11
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CCI Bulk Load Pitfalls 1 – ETL Framework and up-to-date Statistics
Intro
I would like to start a miniseries of blogs where I try to summarize lessons learned from large data loading...
2018-09-03
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How to handle big numbers in SSAS Tabular
Intro
Intro
I have recently faced the issue of handling big numbers in SSAS Tabular. Our SSAS model processes accounting data for...
2018-07-27
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SSAS Tabular – Fact Table Key Columns Datatype Impact
Intro
I’m working on a solution where warehouse uses string codes as the keys for dimensions. Therefore the fact table is...
2018-05-23
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DAX IF & Switch Statement Performance – Does Order Matter?
Intro
I’ve written a couple of article about IF & SWITCH in DAX over the past few years. Recently I noticed that...
2018-01-31
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Blogs
The First Steps: Understanding the Basics of FinOps
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 8: RAG – Retrieval Augmented Generation
By Vinay Thakur
RAG — Retrieval Augmented Generation. we have covered so far — embeddings, vectors, vector...
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Not Just an Upgrade
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Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers