There are situations when you may need to remove HTML tags from your character string data. PowerShell will let you "clean" the string data and export the result to a .csv file in a single step.
2011-09-20
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This article presents a handy way to retrieve deadlock information in an ordered way from the error log.
2011-09-19
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This challenge invites you to solve one of the most common calculation challenges seen in applications that deal with financial -transactions.
2011-09-19
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The Charleston, SC PASS chapter is looking for speakers and new members. Read more and come to the Sept 20 meeting if you are near the area.
2011-09-19
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Laerte Junior was asked for a quick and easy way to save the output from the Get-EventLog cmdlet in a SQL Server table. Luckily, he already knew about Chad Miller's excellent Out-DataTable and Write-DataTable functions, and has laid out everything we need to use them like pros.
2011-09-19
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We are conducting new product research and are keen to speak to people who have any experience (good or bad!) using Microsoft's SQL or Windows Azure. If you're interested and would like to get involved--tell us your frustrations, shape a new product, test-drive betas etc
2011-09-16
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It comes as rather a shock to find out that one of the commonest circumstances in an OLTP database, an ascending primary key with most querying on the latest records, can throw the judgement of the Query Optimiser to the extent that perfomance nose-dives. Fabiano Amorim once again dons snorkel and goggles to explore the murky depths of execution plans to find out why.
2011-09-16
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2011-09-15
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2011-09-15 (first published: 2009-10-07)
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There are numerous circumstances when we wish to add a custom function to a SSRS report in order to cater for needs of the customer which exceeds the capability of the built-in functions in SSRS. In these scenarios we will have to write our own functions. In this article you will see how to add custom code to SSRS.
2011-09-15
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