SSIS Denali Resolve References
One of the new features in SSIS Denali that I’m really excited about (Other than the ability to Undo ctrl-z)...
2010-11-15
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SQL Rally Precon Vote Results
The votes have all been tabulated and during PASS this week the top pre conference seminars were announced for SQL Rally.Thankfully...
2010-11-12
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SQL Server 2011 (Denali) no DTS support
The end has come! We've been told for several years the vNext of SQL Server will no longer support DTS...
2010-11-11
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Date Dimension Using Computed Columns
Picked up this nice script from a client last week. Use this script below to create a Date Dimension for...
2010-11-08
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MDX - Color Formatting on All Measures at Once
In a post a while back I wrote about how you can create conditional color formatting on the Analysis Services...
2010-11-04
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SQL Rally Cast Your Vote!
Pre Conference seminar voting is up now. Go make it happen! Here's the description of our session:
Title:
Business Intelligence Workshop
Speaker:Patrick LeBlanc,...
2010-10-26
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SQL Rally Precon - We Need Your Vote!
Okay SQL Community, I need your help! Patrick Leblanc, Adam Jorgensen, Mike Davis and myself have submitted a precon for...
2010-10-23
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SQL Lunch #36 - Overview of Common DAX Expressions
Tuesday at 12:30 pm I will be presenting for SQL Lunch giving you an overview of some common DAX Expressions...
2010-10-22
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Issues With Calculating Current Age Using DateDiff (Rounding?)
Recently I inherited a set of SSIS packages that did a pretty simple calculation for age.It used the following expression,...
2010-10-09
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SSRS - Join Function
Often when designing a Reporting Services with parameters you
may be required to display those parameter values on your report.This is...
2010-10-08
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
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Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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