To back up your database to Azure BLOB storage, first you need to set up the BLOB storage in your Azure account. You will also need to create a container first.
You can back up the database to Azure by using either PowerShell or T-SQL.
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We had to trace which among our hundreds of Blackbaud Enterprise CRM (BBEC) ad hoc queries were using Site from the Designation node. We also needed to figure out if they were being used as output or being used as filter.
Here’s the script that did the trick.
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You’re a SQL Server DBA and you want to learn Windows Server Failover Clustering? On April 20, 2015 MSSQLTips is hosting an online training, and you can learn from SQL Server MVP and MCM (Microsoft Certified Master) Edwin Sarmiento. Check out the details here:
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertraining/3/windows-server-failover-clustering-for-the-sql-server-dba/
Do you know that changing a shared axis chart to a stacked bar chart in Tableau is as easy as one drag?
Supposed you have a shared axis chart like this:
I had a question from one of my students tonight about how to show the header for text table with a single measure. It’s not super straightforward to do this in Tableau. You can’t simply to go the measure pill and show the header (because it doesn’t have it).
Let’s recreate the default Tableau behavior first, using Superstore Sales.
1. Double click on a dimension, for example, Product Category
2. Double click on a measure, for example, Sales
What you will get is something like this:
Note: DSC can only be run if you have at least Windows Management Framework 4.0 and if your operating system is at least Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
The PowerShell team has released the xSQLPs module as part of the Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit. xSQLPs contains xSqlServerInstall, which you can use as a starting script when installing SQL Server via PowerShell and DSC. Download the module here.
This is what I needed to do to install SQL Server using DSC and the xSQLPs module. Many of these steps are from the xSQLPs documentation page.
The Microsoft Big Data Hackathon is happening in Vancouver. (Register here)
When
April 18-19, 2015 (Saturday and Sunday)
Where
Simon Fraser University – Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue (Map)
580 W Hastings St
Vancouver British Columbia V6B 1L6
Canada
How
You will need to register for the event. Register here.
To participate, you will need to be part of a 3-5 member team.
