Monday Morning Mistakes: Connecting to Wrong Environments
Today’s Monday Morning Mistake issue is another painfully common one that we all run into at some point. You’ve got...
2012-06-18
2,323 reads
sqlchicken
BIxPress 3.5–Now With More Awesome!
Pragmatic Works has now released version 3.5 of the award-winning BIxPress software! For those not familiar with BIxPress it’s a...
2012-05-21
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SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house
You sure do got a 'purty motherboard...
Now that SQL Server 2012 is generally available to the public, many companies are...
2012-04-30
2,974 reads
Pragmatic Works Software for MVPs
This is just a quick post to remind folks who are current Microsoft MVPs that Pragmatic Works offers NFR licenses...
2012-04-23
1,092 reads
STOP! Consolidate and Listen
I just wrapped up my 24 Hours of PASS session on consolidation. A big THANK YOU again to everyone in attendance,...
2012-03-21
910 reads
Monday Morning Mistakes: Not Setting Memory Limits
Welcome back to another addition of Monday Morning Mistakes series. Today’s issue is one I tend to run into quite...
2012-03-12 (first published: 2012-02-28)
42,453 reads
Monday Morning Mistakes: SSIS Expressions Not Evaluating Correctly
SSIS Expressions
Expressions in SSIS are great. They allow you to create dynamic values for all sorts of stuff like variables,...
2012-02-16 (first published: 2012-02-13)
4,215 reads
Monday Morning Mistakes: Remote Connectivity to SQL Server
Inspired by common emails and questions I see, I figured I’d do a series of blog posts on common mistakes...
2012-01-23
992 reads
Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores
I’m in the middle of a database migration and thought I’d quickly share a script I threw together to show...
2012-01-03 (first published: 2011-12-30)
80,113 reads
SQL University: Virtualization Basics
This week we’re going to talk about a topic that has been gaining steam in the last few years and...
2011-11-17
1,165 reads
Blogs
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
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...
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
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