SQL Server 2014 and 2012 new releases
Microsoft SQL Server team has done few releases related SQL Server 2014 and 2012 in last few months. You can download and upgrade your instances if required;Cumulative Update #2 for SQL Server 2014...
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Getting an email notification when a deadlock is occured
If you are administering a heavy transactional database and often facing an issue with incomplete transactions, deadlocks might be the issue and it needs to be detected. There are few ways of checking...
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SQL Server Error Severity Levels
Have you ever read the Severity Level indicated with an error occurred? Or just tried to find out the problematic code exist in your code for fixing it? It is always better to understand what error...
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SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #032 - TSQL - Converting from one value...
With T-SQL queries, converting data between data types is very common. Conversion can happen automatically (implicitly) or we can take the control and convert as we want (explicitly). This week Brain...
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Types of Database End Users
There are distinct types of people who engage with database management system and End Users are well known. However, when referring End Users, does it represent all people work with DBMS or just...
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History of Database Management Sysytems
No doubt, we all are familiar with relational database management systems, structure and components of it. But do you know how this was started? What was the history of Database Management Systems?...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 CTP 2.4 is available for downloading
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.4 and we can try this in our test environment. Many new great features have been added with this release such as;Operational...
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SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #033 - Cartesian Product
SQL statements produce various types of results and forming the result is based on the way the query has been written. This week brain basher is based on types of results that SQL statement...
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Reporting Services report does not show all lables in X-Axis
Assume that you have a dataset and you have configured a clustered bar chart with it using Reporting Services. Based on number of elements configured with X-Axis, it might not show all labels for each...
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What is NoSQL Document Database? What is Azure DocumentDB?
NoSQL databases are not something recently introduced, it was another type of model that was discussed with relational database management system (introduced in 1970s) whenever disadvantages of...
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How to create a DocumentDB in Azure
Microsoft implementation of NoSQL database, documentDB is a cloud based, fully managed, massively scalable service for managing semi-structured data in Azure. Just like other NoSQL products, it...
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Loading data from Microsoft SQL Server to DocumentDB in Azure
WIth my previous post (How to create a DocumentDB in Azure), I mentioned that there are multiple ways of loading documents into DocumentDB in Azure. This is the continuation of it, let's see how we...
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Trying to connect on-prem Analysis Services using Power BI Analysis Services...
Although Power BI Pro allows us to connect with On-Prem Analysis Services Tabular instances for consuming live data into dashboards and report, there are limitations on it. If you try to configure...
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Understanding Reporting and Analysis in Business Intelligence solutions
Every company implements a business intelligence solution for tracking and improving the business performance through reporting and analysis, setting it as the ultimate goal of business intelligence...
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Can we use user-defined hierarchies in the model with Power BI?
Power BI is becoming richer and richer with its functionalities and will be surly the best in terms of BI client tools. Since it is still being completed, some important functionalities are still...
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Power BI: Showing YTD values
Still not all time intelligence functions are working but some of them can be used with DAX. If you have a requirement for showing YTD, QTD and MTD, and they are not available with your either...
View ArticleSQL Server Management Studio - October 2015 Release
Have you tried out latest SQL Server Management Studio? It is available as the October release. It can be used with SQL Server 2016 through SQL Server 2005 and supports side-by-side installation. You...
View ArticleStoring datetime with time zone offset and retrieve with required time zone...
Nothing new but posting as it is something important when working with multiple time zone offsets. If you have to store requests coming from all around the world with the time local to them,...
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SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #034 - Analysis Services Security
Security is the most important area that needs to be addressed with many solution and same goes to your Business Intelligence solutions implemented with Microsoft Analysis Services. Typically, all...
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SQL Server Brain Basher of the Week #035 - Database size
Microsoft SQL Server supports creating small databases as well as very large databases. This week question is based on database sizes, here is the one;What is the minimum relational database size and...
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