In order to help DBAs determine which tables and stored procedures might be good to take advantage of using the new In-Memory OLTP tables in SQL Server 2014, Microsoft introduced the AMR Utility. Greg Larsen explores how to use this tool.
2013-12-18
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This article talks about how you can get around the "Login Failed for user 'NT Authority\ANONYMOUS' LOGON" error when using linked servers and Windows authentication.
2013-12-17
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SQL Saturday is coming to Nashville on January 18th 2014. This is a free full day of SQL Server training and networking. There are also paid-for Pre-con sessions available to sign up for presented by Denny Cherry and David Klee.
2013-12-17
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Rob Sheldon continues on his quest to explain all those command-line tools such as SQLCMD, Logparser, SQLIO and tablediff that are part of SQL Server. TableDiff can be used for comparing tables, as when you run automated tests that check a result against a table of expected values. The best way to learn TableDiff is to see it in action and Rob talks you through several examples.
2013-12-17
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A congratulations to the winners of our contest last week.
2013-12-16
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If you work with large scale SSIS ETL processes and sequences, you are bound to have to work with UTF-8 encoded text files. Without proper handling, UTF-8 / Unicode characters can cause havoc with your SSIS load tasks. Here are some ideas for handling the UTF-8 file formats with SSIS.
2013-12-16
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Nigel Sammy will be presenting this PASS Data Architecture VC webinar on December 19 at 12PM CST. The webinar will share insight on how basic query structure and logic works so you can avoid wasting too much time on trial and error when writing queries.
2013-12-16
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A more detailed look at the DAX language and some of its more frequently used functions
2013-12-13 (first published: 2013-05-02)
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In this document I will attempt to talk you through writing your first very simple DAX queries. For the purpose of this document I will query the rather familiar Adventure Works Tabular Cube.
2013-12-13 (first published: 2012-09-25)
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Phil Scrace, a test engineer at Red Gate, talks about adopting Model Based Testing (MBT), a technique that combines graph theory and code writing to help keep pace with frequently changing functionality.
2013-12-13
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By Steve Jones
We’re a week late, once again my fault. I was still coming out of...
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
Hi there, Has anyone else had any trouble with Database Mail in Cumulative Update...
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
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