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
1,660 reads
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
831 reads
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
624 reads
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
1,294 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers