For Hire: Data Analytics/Business Intelligence Expert
Data Analytics/Business Intelligence Expert Strengths: Passion, great with people, loves to learn and teach Weaknesses: Chocolate, fast cars, death Inquire...
2017-08-07
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TheSqlPro.com - Ayman El-Ghazali
SQL Server 2016: A Comprehensive Introduction – Arabic
It has been over a year since I have blogged, I know… that’s a long time! I have not retired,...
2017-04-26
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PolyBase: I now Pronounce you SQL and Hadoop
Are you interested in Hadoop? With SQL Server 2016 just around the corner, a powerful new feature is being included called...
2016-04-27
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SQL Server 2016: What’s the best new feature?
With SQL 2016 around the corner, and my blog without a post this year, I thought I would write about...
2016-04-28 (first published: 2016-04-19)
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Get valuable Virtual Log File (VLF) information for all your databases log files
I had this problem where I needed to gather Transaction Log information on multiple databases and check for valuable statistics on...
2015-11-09 (first published: 2015-11-02)
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SQL 2016 Row-Level Security Demo: Users with various clearance levels
SQL 2016 is right around the corner and one of the new security enhancements promised is Row-Level security for tables....
2015-10-01
1,287 reads
Another Career Podcast – Working at Microsoft
I have to admit, I had a lot of fun at SQL Saturday in Philly this last June; I mean...
2015-08-07
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Podcast about my career and the SQL Server Community with Chris Bell
During my time at SQL Saturday in Philadelphia (Early June), Chris Bell invited me to be a guest on his...
2015-07-09
665 reads
Working at Microsoft – A Year in Reflection
Last year after starting my new job with Microsoft as a Senior Consultant I wrote an article about my interviewing...
2015-06-24
677 reads
SQL Server 2014 BI ???? ??????? ????? ??
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2015-03-29
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“We love to debate minutiae”
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I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
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Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
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As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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