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)
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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
1,807 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
721 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
2,038 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
1,300 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)
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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
1,726 reads
Blogs
Learn some critical SQL Security with the MidnightDBAs (Thursday, Jan 20)
By Jen McCown
Friends, the MidnightDBAs have a plan for 2022. A capital-P Plan. And it involves...
CosmosDB and Consistency
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I was doing a little work with CosmosDB recently, and there were a few...
Daily Coping 17 Jan 2022
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I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Forums
Linked Server UPDATE & DELETE fails . But INSERT & SELECTs work fine
Hello, I have a Windows 2019 machine. I have SQL Server 2016 and the...
Extended Events - how can I query the location of File Target of an XE Session?
If I know the XE Session name, is there a query to find out...
tricky query with patterns of consecutive rows
Hi! I'm having struggle with selecting rows, that match "dynamic" rules as described: if...
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