Management Reporter Security
Are you confused by how user roles in AX 2012 are integrated with Management Reporter roles? Have problems adding or...
2014-05-23
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Blog Posts
Minimize permissions for file locations
When we talk about security, we often point to the Point of Least Privilege. I write a lot about applying...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-16)
1,738 reads
Naked Statistics
A few weeks ago I stumbled up on this book review of Naked Statistics by Nathan Yau. The introduction on...
2014-05-23
893 reads
Reblog: May 16 to May 22
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-05-23
456 reads
Technical Interviews – How to Thrive
There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
2,774 reads
Wishing For Error Messages That Are Good Search Terms
Here’s a SQL error you might get:
not able to access the database “SomeDB” under the current security context.
If you don’t...
2014-05-23
522 reads
Advanced Google Analytics for SSIS
Update: There is a new 1.7 Version of Google Analytics Source for SSIS
This post is a continuation of the SSIS...
2014-05-22
421 reads
An Sp_addrolemember Gotcha
Over the past few months there have been a handful of times when I had to fix a security problem...
2014-05-22
826 reads
Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express
Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...
2014-05-22
2,375 reads
Missing Indexes Script v2
Frequently we hear the analogy that <insert item here> is like opinions, everybody has one and not all of them...
2014-05-22 (first published: 2014-05-15)
4,230 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers