Enhanced PolyBase SQL 2019 – Installation and basic overview October 24, 2018 by Rajendra Gupta SQL Server 2019 is recently launched in the ignite 2018 event by Microsoft. We can get an overview of SQL 2019 preview version and learn how to install it on Windows environment by following up the article SQL Server 2019 overview and installation. Read more »
SQL Server 2019 – New DMF sys.dm_db_page_info October 22, 2018 by Rajendra Gupta Microsoft released preview of SQL Server 2019 recently in Ignite 2018. With every release of SQL Server is enriched with new dynamic management view and functions along with enhancements to existing features. In this article, we will view the newly introduced dynamic management function (DMF) sys.dm_db_page_info and explore the different scenarios around it. Read more »
SQL Server 2019 overview and installation October 15, 2018 by Rajendra Gupta On September 24th, 2018, Microsoft launched SQL Server 2019 preview version (SQL Server vNext 2.0) in the ignite 2018 event. As you know, SQL Server 2017 is still being adopted by the organizations, we are now ready with this preview version. Read more »
How to create a Word Cloud generator in Power BI Desktop October 11, 2018 by Rajendra Gupta In this article, we’ll look at how to create a Word cloud generator in Power BI Desktop, including importing data, customization and more. In my last article, Power BI Desktop Interactive chord diagrams, we learned about customized visualizations in Power BI Desktop. These visualizations are free to install and we can use them with our data set and customize charts as per our requirements. Read more »
Power BI Desktop Pulse Charts October 9, 2018 by Rajendra Gupta In my last article, Power BI Desktop Interactive chord diagrams, we underscored that Microsoft Power BI desktop has a rich set of customized visualization features. These visualizations can help to produce convert data to information in an efficient manner to an easy to understand format. We can freely download them from Microsoft AppSource Read more »
Power BI Desktop Interactive chord diagrams September 28, 2018 by Rajendra Gupta Power BI desktop helps to create interactive reports and dashboards from a high and complex volume of the data. The Power BI desktop is an integrated tool where we can get the data from different sources. Read more »
SQL Server Data Import using Azure Data Studio September 18, 2018 by Rajendra Gupta Azure Data Studio is a new GUI based tool that works on Windows, Mac OS and Linux operating systems. It connects to SQL Server, Azure database, and SQL DW. Read more »
How to create and configure the Tree Map Chart in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services October 28, 2016 by Rajendra Gupta In the previous article, in this series, How to create and configure a Sunburst chart in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services, we have explored new chart types in SQL Server 2016; the Sunburst chart and the Tree Map chart, that are used to display hierarchical data. The Sunburst chart is a way of presenting relational datasets together in a compact form. The Tree Map Chart is also a way of showing hierarchical data. In this article, we are going to show how to create a Tree Map chart and its comparison with the Sunburst chart. Read more »
How to create and configure a Sunburst chart in SQL Server 2016 Reporting Services October 12, 2016 by Rajendra Gupta Microsoft SQL Server 2016 introduces several significant new features, and enhances some existing ones in reporting services. We have summarised these new features in the previous article. We’ve also explored how to configure the SQL Server Mobile reports in my earlier article. Read more »
How to compare query execution plans in SQL Server 2016 September 15, 2016 by Rajendra Gupta SQL Server 2016 provides great enhancement capability features for troubleshooting purposes. Some of the important features are: Read more »
How to create and configure SQL Server mobile reports September 2, 2016 by Rajendra Gupta Microsoft has recently launched SQL Server 2016 with lots of new features like row level security, always encrypted, stretch database, PolyBase, R Services, hybrid cloud capabilities, Dynamic Data Masking, query store, etc. There is a rich set of business intelligence, security features, and high availability solutions. Read more »
Peer to peer replication February 18, 2016 by Rajendra Gupta Nowadays many customers are spread globally and need to manage the requirement for users to connect from/to any location, perform an activity (insert, update, delete), and the databases should be kept synchronized across multiple sites. Read more »
Database snapshot in SQL Server January 28, 2016 by Rajendra Gupta Database snapshot is a great feature that offers virtual read only consistent database copy. When we create the database snapshot in the live operational database, it takes a database point in time static view and Rollback all uncommitted transactions in the snapshot database so we will not be having any inconsistent data that is yet to be committed. Database snapshot always exists on the Source database server. Read more »
Contained databases in SQL Server January 12, 2016 by Rajendra Gupta As we know there are two types of authentication available in SQL Server Windows authentication and SQL authentication. In Windows authentication we use Active directory authentication to connect with SQL Server which makes the most secure authentication method as it can have complexity, group policy configured at AD level applied to all domain servers while in SQL Authentication SQL users are created inside SQL and provided required permissions. The Permissions includes server wide and database wide. The logins can have certain permissions at the database level might be read or write etc. Read more »
