Certain DBs in an AG not Backing Up
Last week, I received an alert that the percentage of transaction log in use on one of our production databases...
2016-03-29
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SSRS 2016 – Part 3 Mobile Reports
This is the final post of 3 on SSRS 2016. This time I’m looking at the new SSRS 2016 mobile reports.
Post 1 covered...
2016-03-14
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No Joke, SQL Server on Linux
Yesterday Microsoft made the earth shattering news that a version of SQL Server with the “core relational database capabilities” will be...
2016-03-08
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SWITCHing IDENTITY in the Pub
I was recently talking to a friend in our local pub about a problem he had with tables not using IDENTITY...
2016-03-01
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DBCC Just Runs Faster, Unless You’re Cheap
The CSS SQL Server Engineers have released a post showing that consistency checks using DBCC CHECKDB is faster and scales...
2016-02-25
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SSRS 2016 – Part 2 New Features for Paginated Reports
This second post of 3 on SSRS 2016 looks at the new features for the SSRS portal and the paginated reports using the...
2016-02-22
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Importing Open Data Sets in SQL Server
Whilst working on an upcoming post I realised that I needed a decent data set on which to test some...
2016-02-15
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SQL Server Reporting Services 2016 – Part 1
This first post of 3 takes a quick peek at SSRS 2016 using the Community Technical Preview (CTP) 3.2. I...
2016-02-03
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SQL Server Management Studio Setup and Configuration
This is my first #entrylevel blog post. The challenge identified by the tags #entrylevel and #Iwanttoshare was started by Tim...
2016-01-28
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Installing SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview
This post is designed to explain the installation steps of some of the new features in 2016 and just how...
2016-01-20
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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