The Powershell Challenge–Notes and Observations
It’s been a month and a half in real time since I started the Powershell Challenge. In that time, I...
2014-01-03
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Blog Posts
Throwing Spaghetti At The Wall Isn’t The Worst Plan
I get a lot of email about job opportunities, almost none of which interest me enough to call back about...
2014-01-03
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Day 9 – Queries Going Boom
This is the ninth installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season.
Previous articles in this...
2014-01-02
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Day 9 – Queries Going Boom
This is the ninth installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season. Previous articles in this mini-series on quick tidbits: SQL Sat LV announcement...
2014-01-02
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Hope you all had a good Xmas, ate too much, drank too much and are still telling yourselves...
2014-01-02
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How SQL Server 2014 improves Online Operations that aren’t Online Operations
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan, where you are getting week by week via email...
2014-01-02
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Master Data Services 2014: Creating nightly load processes
Introduction
A few days ago, I ran into an interesting issue when creating a stored procedure to load new data into...
2014-01-02 (first published: 2013-12-23)
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MCSM (Microsoft Certified Solutions Master) Data Platform on SQL Server 2012
(de)
Einige meiner engsten Kollegen wissen es bereits, und nun teile ich es öffentlich mit:
Seit 31.12.2013 bin ich nicht mehr „nur“
Microsoft...
2014-01-02
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PASS SQLSaturday Events: January 2014
PASS SQL Saturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Please...
2014-01-02
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Power BI Q&A Preview now works on your data
As I mentioned in Power BI first impressions, Power BI Q&A is an instantaneous search experience that uses a natural language query....
2014-01-02
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Blogs
A New Word: los vidados
By Steve Jones
los vidados – n. the half-remembered acquaintances you knew years ago, who you might...
In-Person CISA Training – April 13-16, 2026
By Brian Kelley
I will be leading an in-person Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam prep class...
EightKB 2026
EightKB is back again for 2026! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is...
Forums
query to track time spent on individual tasks in SSIS
Hi everyone I am looking at building a query to determine how much time...
SQL Server Transactional Replication from Always On Availability Groups to Azure SQL Database
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Hidden Heroes
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences I
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which are explicitly linked to increment a number in a table when a new row is added?
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