Installing the MDS add-in for Excel 2016
For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to...
2017-11-15
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For some reason I attract all kinds of misery when working with Master Data Services. Today I was trying to...
2017-11-15
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I have a new installation of SQL Server 2017, along with an instance of Analysis Services Tabular 2017. I tried...
2017-10-30
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A quick blog post on an error I got when installing SQL Server 2017 RTM. I ran the set-up for...
2017-10-20
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Last week I had the privilege to host a little contest to give away one free ticket to dataMinds Connect...
2017-09-25
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Within two weeks the wait is over: the first edition of dataMinds Connect! For those of you wondering what I’m...
2017-09-18
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Very quick blog post today. While setting-up a development server at a client who is still using SQL Server 2012,...
2017-09-15
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There have already been many posts/articles/books written about the subject of how CALCULATE and FILTER works, so I’m not going...
2017-09-13 (first published: 2017-09-06)
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UPDATE: recent builds of SSDT for VS 2017 can break TFS integration. Read more about it in the blog post...
2017-08-23
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I recently got a new laptop with Windows 10. I noticed SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS 17.1) was looking a...
2017-08-14
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Very quick blog post about two tips for working with Azure (hence the title of course). I recently started up...
2017-08-10
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By HeyMo0sh
As someone who’s worked with data for over 20 years and with many cloud...
By HeyMo0sh
2025 belongs to the AI startups. If you peek into the tech headlines, you’ll...
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers