Master Data Services Configuration Woes
Installing and configuring SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re...
2015-12-01 (first published: 2015-11-24)
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Koen Verbeeck
Reporting Services redesign – it’s the little things
SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) is getting quite the overhaul in SQL Server 2016. Lot’s of things are changing:
new look...
2015-11-24 (first published: 2015-11-20)
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Reblog: Data Visualization – Book Review
To prepare myself for my session Data Visualization Tips & Tricks, I read a few books. In this blog post, I’ll...
2015-11-17 (first published: 2015-11-12)
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Webinar – What’s New for Business Intelligence in SQL Server 2016
I’ll be giving a webinar for MSSQLTips.com on Thursday 29th October 2015.
The title is What’s New for Business Intelligence in SQL Server...
2015-10-23
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Presentation Design – Before and After
Recently I gave a session on the SQL Server Days about the new features for business intelligence in SQL Server...
2015-10-15
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Overview of Published Articles – 2015Q3
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the third quarter of 2015.
Retrieve file sizes from the file system...
2015-10-06
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What’s new for BI in SQL 2016 – Session materials
SQL Server Days 2015 is over and it was a blast. Met a lot of people from the #sqlfamily, too...
2015-10-01
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New SSRS features in SQL 2016 CTP 2.4
SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.4 hasn’t been released yet (any day now I guess), but someone was apparently very eager...
2015-09-30
2,157 reads
Why I hate Pie Charts
The pie chart should be avoided at all costs. Why?
you can only display a limited number of slices (although that...
2015-09-21
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Reblog: The Magic Alt Button
SQLKover update: I love this trick! I use it daily, no kidding (except in weekends). Want to see it in live...
2015-09-17
639 reads
Blogs
TempDB Internals – What’s New (SQL Server 2016 to 2022)
By Vinay Thakur
I wrote about TempDB Internals and understand that Tempdb plays very important role on...
Blog a Day – Day 2: Generative AI, Multimodal Systems, and Agent AI
By Vinay Thakur
continuing from Day 1 where we covered the history of AI and GPT family,...
A Wellbeing Day at Redgate
By Steve Jones
It’s a day off for Redgate today. This is our annual wellbeing day, where...
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A Quick Restore
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