Randomized Colors in Report
Randomized color report? So help my CODE!
Writing a Reporting Services report can be challenging, making you use the most of...
2014-07-01
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Generating Email Reports using XML
SQL Server has some handy features: one of those features is dbmail, which I tend to use less until I’ve...
2014-06-19
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Mind the Gap
Recently we deployed database mirroring in an environment with an Active Directory. The process is usually quite simple and straight-forward,...
2014-03-04
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Memory Timeouts
Recently I was asked to investigate a timeout issue that was causing SSIS package executions to fail.
The timeouts seemed to...
2013-12-30
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Blogs
The End of Year Vacation Burn
By Steve Jones
It’s been a good year for me. With my sabbatical, I felt like I’ve...
Speaking at PASS Summit 2025
By alevyinroc
In less than one month, I will be speaking not once but twice at...
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
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Powershell script to generate SQL server Inventory in CSV format
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Database Ledger in SQL Server 2022
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Question of the Day
Azure SQL Database MAXDOP
When Azure SQL Database was originally released, the MAXDOP was set to 0 for each new database. In Oct 2025, what is the default value for Azure SQL databases?
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