What’s New In Denali for SSRS
I was so excited when I found out that Denali was released last week. Like it was Christmas time, I...
2010-11-23
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Brian K. McDonald
What's New In Denali for SSRS
I was so excited when I found out that Denali was released last week. Like it was Christmas time, I...
2010-11-16
473 reads
It's an Opportunity! Not an Obstacle!
Write this down… No really… Write it, print it, send it to all of your friends and loved ones. J...
2010-11-15
378 reads
PASS, Keynotes and Tweeting
I have never had the opportunity to go to PASS before, but even though I was unable to attend this...
2010-11-15
330 reads
My Fat Finger and the Target Invocation Exception
I was creating an SSIS package recently and ran into the “TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of...
2010-11-12
706 reads
Appending Date to End of Report Name in Reporting Services Subscription
Recently, a friend of mine asked me how he could have the date appended to the end of a file...
2010-11-09
13,672 reads
Blogging and Saving Money at the Same Time
I enjoy blogging. I enjoy passing on the information that I have gathered over the years. I also enjoy doing...
2010-11-09
601 reads
Windows 7 in GodMode
I recently became aware of a special hack in Windows 7. It is called GodMode and can very simply be...
2010-11-09
655 reads
How Stale Are My Statistics?
Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
2010-11-08
3,068 reads
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Return First Date of Month
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the third post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-06
538 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
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Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Semantic Search in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers