Last week reading (2017-12-24) aka. Merry Christmas!

Thanks for visiting the page. This is a special week – the Christmas Week! Hope you will find some time to read great articles I have found for you.

Here you are – this week readings.

Installing Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04
I have written a post about this process last year but this was in Polish. You can still find it on Technet. You can find the English version of it on the Bobby Allen’s blog.

SQL Server 2017: World’s First Diskless Database

Not for reading. This is a presentation done by Bob Ward. It takes only 5 minutes to watch so this might be actually a good option if you are tired during the Christmas morning

How to use Tableau with SQL Server on R and Python
If you are curious how to work with Tableau and make use of data from SQL Server then go and read this.

Checklist for Finalizing a Data Model in Power BI Desktop

Mellisa Coates (aka @SQLChick) explains why data modelling in important in PowerBi. This is actually a checklist rather than an article but you should use it any case you work with PowerBi.

Microsoft SQL Server R Services

Here you can find the entire series dedicated only to R Services. This is done by Niels Berglund whom I have met in 2008! And he has been blogging since then!

20 Best SQL Server Monitoring Tools for all SQL Servers

This is a little bit old article about monitoring tools you can find for SQL Server.

ZIP SOURCEFILES IN A SSIS PACKAGE (SSIS SERIES)

An article describing how to deal with compressed files using the SSIS 2014.

Database Corruption – Real World Issue

The real issue that happened and lesson learned. Always worth to read and learn

Cheers,

Damian