Next Stop, SQL Saturday Richmond
I can’t believe it’s almost time for SQL Saturday #610. I’ll be there presenting What is Power BI? If you...
2017-03-11
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Blog Posts
Thinking about Chapters (aka Groups)
I think it was 2003 or 2004 when someone from PASS came to Orlando and helped start what became OPASS....
2017-03-11
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A rare Reporting services issue
This post is about a reporting services configuration issue that you will face after changing the database server name. I’ve blogged about Changing SQL Server name and warned on...
2017-03-10
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A rare Reporting services issue
This post is about a reporting services configuration issue that you will face after changing the database server name. I’ve...
2017-03-10
275 reads
A rare Reporting services issue
This post is about a reporting services configuration issue that you will face after changing the database server name. I’ve blogged about Changing SQL Server name and warned on...
2017-03-10
8 reads
Blue Screen Your SQL Server On-Demand
These days I do a lot of testing with SQL Server. When I am testing new features or helping clients implement SQL Server High Availability solutions I want to...
2017-03-10
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Blue Screen Your SQL Server On-Demand
These days I do a lot of testing with SQL Server. When I am testing new features or helping clients...
2017-03-10
659 reads
Friday Reading 2017-03-10
Just over a week to go until SQL Saturday Iceland! Really looking forward to presenting my session and then I...
2017-03-10
403 reads
Microsoft: 1 Year in, how's it going?
Hello Dear Reader, one year ago today it was leap year, February 29th 2016. So I'm a year older, the...
2017-03-10 (first published: 2017-03-01)
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My take on presenting
This idea basically started from Andy Bek’s TSQL Tuesday last year #84 growing new speakers (https://sqlbek.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/t-sql-tuesday-84-growing-new-speakers/ – thanks Andy) and I have...
2017-03-10
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Blogs
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
Forums
Massive Table Growth Issue – How to Set Up Filegroup Usage Alerts?
Hello We recently encountered an issue where a SQL table unexpectedly grew in size...
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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