Speaking at PASS Summit 2012
Today I’m thrilled and humbled to announce that I will be speaking 3 times at PASS Summit in November 6-9! ...
2012-06-19
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Command Line Prompts for Checking Active Directory Membership
Using Active Directory groups are a great way to manage and maintain security for a solution. Think about if you...
2012-06-13
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New SSIS 2012 Expressions
SSIS 2012 has added a few new expression functions and I thought I’d spend a short time detailing each.
LEFT
The LEFT...
2012-06-05
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SSIS Project Connection Managers
With the new Project Deployment Model in SSIS developers are gaining the benefit of a new design time only feature...
2012-05-31
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Converting to the SSIS 2012 Project Deployment Model
The new project deployment model in SSIS 2012 is the new standard for how packages are created, configured and deployed. ...
2012-05-22
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Upgrading Packages to SSIS 2012
Many of you may now or in the future have the need to upgrade your SSIS packages to the new...
2012-05-16
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SQL Rally Wrap Up
Another SQL Rally has wrapped up in Dallas, TX and it was great event. My favorite part about these larger...
2012-05-11
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 6: Making the Decision
We’ve completed reviewing the major Microsoft tools and now you have to make “The Decision”. Which tool(s) is the best...
2012-05-02
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OPASS April Meeting Recap
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking in Orlando, FL at the OPASS monthly meeting. I spoke on Extending...
2012-04-24
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 5: Power View
In part five of this on going series about choosing the right reporting tool we will discuss the newest of...
2012-04-17
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Blogs
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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