A few weeks back, XAML Guy posted the December TechNet Guru awards:
 | Small Basic Technical Guru - December 2013 |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic Known Issue: 21694 - Font and Pen Width Change Earlier in Remote | RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)" Ed Price: "This code is very helpful!" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic Known Issue: 22108 - Viewport of GraphicsWindow is Narrower and Sometimes Resized in Remote | Ed Price: "The diagrams really help make this clear. Great job!" RZ: "Again, very useful tip. And thank you highlighting them." |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic Known Issue: 21691 - Rectangle and Ellipse Become Smaller in Remote | RZ: "Very useful tip. May potentially save some frustration :)" Ed Price: "Your samples you wrote help give these articles an added boost!" |
| SQL BI and Power BI (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Power Pivot) Technical Guru - December 2013 |
| Tim Pacl | Functional Reports: Making a Report Into a Management Tool | NN: "Terrific article! Very helpful and clean steps" Ed Price: "Tim nails it again with a fantastic and descriptive narrative on a great topic! It could be improved with images to show what you're describing. Fantastic article!" |
| Michael Amadi | A practical example of how to handle simple many to many relationships in Power Pivot/SSAS Tabular models | Ed Price: "Great topic and great formatting! The descriptions are helpful, the images and the tables help clarify. The bold text really pops! Great article!" NN: "Great article explaining a common problem and solution" |
| Tim Pacl | Using a Date Picker for an Analysis Data Query Parameter | NN: "Another interesting article by Tim" Ed Price: "Another great article from Tim. Shorter but sweet!" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
- SSRS - Dependent Parameter and Wild Search in Parameter by Rishab Sachdeva
Ed Price: "Good instructions made clear with images. I would tighten the formatting with consistent font sizes, consistent spacing around images, and better formatting on the code blocks. But the content is very well done!"
NN: "I like that the article is very detailed and easy to reproduce, but the queries it uses are not good from the optimization point of view. " - Using parameters and variables in a Script Task by SSISJoost
NN: "Another good and short clear article by SSISJoost" - Execute SSIS 2012 package with parameters via .Net by SSISJoost
NN: "Helpful article" - Using parameters and variables in a Script Component by SSISJoost
NN: "One more good article by SSISJoost based on his blog post" - Populate Excel table with custom MDX query & PivotTable filters by Christian Wade
- SSAS time dimension with semi-additive measures; dynamic set; calculated members by Minnie Shi
NN: "This article is hard to understand without samples"
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - December 2013 |
| Uwe Ricken | How does SQL Server allocate space in a heap | Samuel Lester: "Amazing content, great presentation, and incredibly educational! " DRC: "• Very nice article, very well documented. • Clear explanation of the behaviour and queries to trace the same. • This also explains the output of the queries which makes the users more comfortable while reproducing the behaviour explained. • The only modification is to remove the .(dot) for the value “8.096” which should be 8096. " DB: "Clear and informative explanation of details not available elsewhere." Jinchun Chen: "Awesome" Ed Price: "Another high-quality article from Uwe! Great formatting and even a good interaction with Shanky in the comments!" NN: "Great and thorough article" |
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Ed Price: "A good solution and some great suggestions from Shanky in the comments! Examples would help."
NN: "Another great article by Praveen which contains many methods to check Server and Windows Restart time."
Samuel Lester: "Knowing when SQL Server restarted is nice, but knowing why it restarted is often the more important issue. The methods you highlight are creative and allow you to quickly find the first answer, but aside from determining if it was restarted due to an OS reboot, it would be nice to dig more into the topic of why. Great content on what could turn into a spectacular topic and set of troubleshooting steps."
DRC: "• It mentioned about finding the "reason" for the SQL Server and windows restarts at the beginning but the details are missing in the article. . The query "SELECT create_date FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'tempdb'" will not work if traceflag 3609 is ON which doesn’t create a new tempdb file during sql server startup. For windows: Method 1: Start Task Manager->Performance Method 1 shows only the uptime but doesn’t show the actual time of restart. If the server has been up for a long time, then the calculation is very difficult Method 2: This method helps you to figure out root cause for the restart. start -> run -> eventvwr The 2nd method will not help if event viewer logs are clreared. • We have a better method to find the system startup time where we don’t depend on any other logs or tools. C:\> systeminfo | find /i "Boot Time" "
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - December 2013 |
| Naomi N | T-SQL: Relational Division | DB: "Clear and detailed." Jinchun Chen: "Nice article!" Richard Mueller: "Very well done and well researched." Ed Price: "The article comments say it welll. From Saeid: "Surprised with this one! This is really one of the important topics. Many questions in MSDN SQL forums are about this topic" From Carmelo: "Very good work Naomi!" " Samuel Lester: "Outstanding article again! As mentioned in the article and comments, variations of this question appear in the forums frequently and it is nice to have this article to reference. Great breadth and depth with each solution!" |
| Durval Ramos | How to extract data in XML to meet the requirements of a Schema | Samuel Lester: "Creative solution and great write-up! " Richard Mueller: "The articles in this group were very close. This is a great article with outstanding links. The See Also section should only include Wiki articles." Ed Price: "Very detailed narrative that's well supported by great formatting and images! Great article!" |
| Saeid Hasani | Error handling within Triggers using T-SQL | Richard Mueller: "A well executed article. The trigger rules were confusing to me." Ed Price: "Another great article from Saeid! This could be made better with more explanations for each step. Good job!" Samuel Lester: "Great new content and nice companion to your prior article. " |
And keep your eyes on the January results as January comes to a close:
TechNet Guru Contributions for January 2014
Here are the current entries for the technologies that I work on...
Small Basic
Current contributions for January:
SQL BI & Power BI
Current contributions for January:
- Consume Web-Service via a SSIS Script Component by AB82
- Power Pivot: Dynamic Filtering Using Slicers Post Convert to Formulas by AB82
- Power Pivot: Casting DateTime to Date in SQL Server Source Query by Paras Doshi
- How to generate XML files in SSIS for each row of a SQL table without any custom code (No script task) by Firdous S
- How to generate incrementing numbers in SSIS using script component by Sqlsaga
SQL Server General & Database Engine
Current contributions for January:
- SQL Server Memory and Troubleshooting by Shanky
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- When Using DBCC SHRINKFILE for log files can we use TRUNCATEONLY OPTION by Shanky
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- SQL Server: Misleading Database Initial Size Label by Praveen Rayan D'sa
- How to partition an existing table in SQL Server by Sql Saga
- SQL Server Instant File Initialization by John Sansom
- SQL Server: Change the Login Password using PowerShell by John Sansom
- SQL Server 2012 Database Partitioning by joeydj
Transact-SQL
Current contributions for January:
- How to remove duplicates from a table in SQL Server by SqlSaga
- Find list of all Foreign Keys in your database by SqlSaga
- SQL Query to check number of connections on Database by Mohammad Nizamuddin
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- Convert VBA Code to Transact-SQL by Ronen Ariely (nickname pituach)
- T-SQL: How to put Grouped Results on the Same Line by Naomi N
- T-SQL: Calendar Table by Himanshu Sharma
Special thanks to XAML guy for hosting this contest!
See Also
• TechNet Guru Contributions
• List of Award Winning TechNet Guru Articles
Hope you're having a great week!
- Ninja Ed