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Use existing connections in PowerPivot and Visual Studio
I have been fortunate enough to work with a lot of data which involve using of PowerPivot or customers using Tabular model using BISM. Though there are striking similarities in building both the tasks,...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014: CREATE INDEX in CREATE TABLE construct
This is one of the simplest post that I could think for the mid-week post :). There is nothing big about this feature to talk but surely worth a mention. I was reading the documentation of CREATE TABLE...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014: Encrypted Backups
The learning on SQL Server 2014 continues and in this blog, I will walk through TSQL on what are the steps involved in creating an Encrypted backup using SQL Server 2014. The steps involved are: Create...
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SQL Server 2014: Restoring Encrypted Backups
What is the point in taking encrypted backup (SQL Server 2014: Encrypted Backups), if we are not sure how to restore them. This blog is about taking a cue from the previous post and we will detail on...
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SQL Server 2014: Backup to Azure Blob
SQL Server 2014 has this new capability which allows us to take a backup to a URL. Infact, it is available in SQL 2012 SP1 CU2 itself – I lied to you in my first statement :). Anyways, I thought it is...
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GIDS 2014 – 5 Tech session Scheduled
It has become a custom for me to talk at this premier event year-on-year and this will be my 5th year partnering with the Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS 2014) folks. I am excited as ever because...
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Troubleshooting SQL Server 2014 Encrypted Backups
My adventures of working encrypted backups still are on. There are couple of posts already on how to take encrypted backups – I highly recommend you to read them before getting into this. When I wrote...
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Troubleshooting Errors with SQL Server 2014 Encrypted Backups
The more I play around with Encrypted backups, the more I get to uncover things. It is highly recommended that you read the other posts (Troubleshooting SQL Server 2014 Encrypted Backups) before going...
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Troubleshooting with Policy Based Management (PBM)
SQL Server 2008 introduced a feature called Policy Based Management that allows a database administrator to manage one or more instances or SQL Server 2008 through policies. Depending on the policy and...
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Checksum on Backup and Restores
I am a firm believer of using new features that enhance productivity and life of a DBA. In that category is the feature of CHECKSUM. I have written a number of article on them in the past and are worth...
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Identify SQL Server 2014 Cardinality Estimator
SQL Server 2014 released a new cardinality estimator (CE) and more can be learnt from the MSDN documentation on the specifics. In this post I just wanted to call out how you can quickly identify if we...
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SQL Server: Columnstore Index on Temp Tables
Recently I was talking to a customer during performance testing and they had an interesting twist to using Columnstore Index. Since they were on SQL Server 2012, I had suggested them to use...
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Excel Tip: Month Name Sorting with PowerPivot / PowerView
I do a lot of presentation on Excel related topics to customers as part of my BI conversations at MTC, Bangalore. Recently one of the developer when looking at the PowerView demo said, he had an unique...
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Excel Tip: Month Name Sorting in Excel
In my previous article Excel Tip: Month Name Sorting with PowerPivot / PowerView, I wrote about sorting of month name inside PowerPivot. I got a number of ping about the same functionality inside...
View ArticleManaged Databases on Cloud
Recently my good friend and colleague Govind wrote about this topic on what are customers looking forward to when it comes to Cloud and working with Azure. The fundamental tenants that customers look...
View ArticleCreating Excel Interactive View
I have been wanting to write on this topic for ages but seem to have missed out for one reason or the other. How many times in your life seen a web page with a bunch of tables and it is so boring to...
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Basic Column Encryption of data with SQL Server
The more I talk with customers on basic architecture, more are the questions about how to implement. These scenarios when talked look great on whiteboard and when they implement and come back (say...
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Moving data to Cloud–Considerations and thoughts
Being a data person and meeting customers almost every single day on considerations of movement to Azure (Cloud), I take the opportunity to demystify a lot basic concepts with customers. Post the...
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Getting started with PowerShell and Azure
I am a big time supporter of PowerShell and automation when it comes to working with Azure. In the recent past, I have seen SQL Developer ask me – how I can start playing with PowerShell for Azure....
View ArticleAzure Bytes: Creating an Azure DB using Quick Create
I have been wanting to create this content concept for a long time. I am going to call this as “Azure Bits-N-Bytes” series. The idea here is to create short videos on Azure related topics (ideally...
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Throttling is inherent / inevitable for Cloud deployments
My good friend and mentor in many ways Govind Kanshi did write about his learning of working on Cloud for ISV’s and he calls out a number of caveats. One of the hidden gem is the article is the concept...
View ArticleProductivity Minutes: Sharing Outlook Calendar
I have had the opportunity to write a number of blog posts around Excel and other productivity tools in the past. Since I started the video blog series, now I will try to bring some of these tips in a...
View ArticleProductivity Minutes: Moving rows in Excel
This is in series to our Productivity Minutes videos. I have started to get a hang of these videos and I am loving doing these short videos for you. In this blog, I would like to share the tip around...
View ArticleProductivity Minutes: AutoSum Trick with Excel
As the productivity series catches heat, I have got a number of you ask more tips around Excel and other tools. So here is next in series of using AutoSum capability with Excel and how you can quickly...
View ArticleProductivity Minutes: Compare two tables
I remember writing a three part series on how to compare two lists before in this blog. This can be read from Excel Tip: Compare two lists (Method 3). This video is not about that, here I am going to...
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