Pragmatic Works is on YouTube !
I bet you didn’t know Pragmatic Works has our own YouTube channel ? Check it out at
There is some great...
2010-02-20
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Quotes in Calculation Tab
A quick clarification on something I said the other day to a group of students in one of our quick...
2010-02-20
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Selecting Top N Rows from Excel Source
Excel is a significant source of data in most enterprises. Therefore there is a large amount of Excel work being...
2010-02-20
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SSAS Query Processing and Performance Tuning
Any of us can work with some simple MDX queries and get them to do what we want, but in...
2010-02-20
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Testing Security in SSAS
Security in SSAS is a simple yet powerful application of windows integrated security. MDX adds extra power to this by...
2010-02-20
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Using MDX to work with the File System
There are sometimes some cool things you can do with a language that is not really it’s primary focus. T-SQL...
2010-02-20
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Why don’t lookup columns appear in no match output?
I often get asked when we are discussing loading dimension tables in SSIS, why the key columns from the table...
2010-02-20
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Recent Speaking
Ok Guys and Gals. I know I have been a slow blogger thus far in 2010. To try and make...
2010-02-08
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Stop Splashing with –NoSplash
Many times when I'm teaching a class or working with a group, they express frustration at the load time for...
2009-12-18
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Load Windows 7 with a Thumb Drive
With the explosion of Netbooks, it has become important to find new ways to load operating systems. I recently picked...
2009-12-11
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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