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SQL Server Delete does not release file space allocation
This one’s a short blog post, and by no means new, but it may help you in the future and maybe save some head scratching. Commonly in Data Warehousing projects you will be processing data through tables whilst staging and cleaning source data. These tables...
RANKX–Analysis Services 2012 Tabular
RANKX was a new function made available in DAX at the launch of SQL Server 2012; however Ranking is a widely used function in most BI projects, and was very much anticipated. Having worked extensively with Tabular on a recent project we had the need to...
SQL Server 2012 Running Totals
SQL server has sometimes come under fire with the Oracle vs SQL Server debate because of the lack of some of the more advanced (and less used) functionality that is outlined in the SQL ANSI standards.   An example of this is Window Functions...