Surface: Standard Onscreen Keyboard
If you feel that the default on-screen keyboard on the Surface RT isn't sufficient, you can enable what I would...
2012-11-19
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SQL in the City - New York 2012
I was able to attend the SQL in the City event in New York this past Friday. I highly recommend...
2012-10-01
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PowerShell: Redirecting Console Output and Error Output to a Variable and E-mailing it
I recently had the need to script the execution of a command-line utility and thought it would be a good...
2012-08-29 (first published: 2012-08-28)
28,316 reads
Fix: Crystal Reports Shows Red X Across Entire Page When Report Run Inside Visual Studio
I was googling (with Bing AND Google) like crazy for a solution to this, but didn't find one from any...
2012-08-14
2,028 reads
Enabling "Open Project Folder" for project types that don't support it
One annoying thing about SSIS (2008) and some of the other project types in Visual Studio is the lack of...
2012-07-18
753 reads
A Pattern for PIVOT
Use of the PIVOT operator in T-SQL has always been tantalizing yet confounding to me. It offers the promise of...
2012-07-08
2,052 reads
Excellent SSIS 2012 Upgrade Video
This presentation gives an excellent overview of the process of upgrading SQL Server 2008 SSIS packages to work with SQL...
2012-06-24
1,310 reads
Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...
2012-05-15
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One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
This is my attempt to explain something that I have wanted to figure out for a long time. I have...
2012-05-15 (first published: 2012-05-11)
71,092 reads
One Way to Work Around the .NET Setup Project’s Picky Version Number Behavior
If you don’t change the version number of your .NET project output every time you create a setup package, you...
2012-05-10
1,738 reads
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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