Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
Fires, SAN failures, tornados, and car accidents all came up today, yet it was a very good day at work. ...
2013-10-04 (first published: 2013-09-30)
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Blog Posts
Reblog: September 27 to October 3
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-10-04
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SQL Server Analysis Services Activity Viewer 2012 1.0.0.1 Beta Released
(Worth noting that there is a more recent version available here!)
Hi all, yesterday morning I created a project based on an old blog post Upgrade Analysis Services Activity Viewer...
2013-10-04
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The SQL in the City Tour is Almost Here
Five days. That’s how long I’m in Denver after my last trip before I head back to the airport for...
2013-10-04
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DevConnections Slides and Code
I had a great time at DevConnections this week, It was a fairly quick trip for me, with lots of...
2013-10-03
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Does Business Intelligence equal Data Warehousing?
I have seen many times at clients where the terms business intelligence and data warehousing are used interchangeably. In reality, these...
2013-10-03
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Farewell Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy died yesterday. I’ve been reading his books for a long time and I think I’ve read them all...
2013-10-03
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Generating a unique identifier outside of SQL and persisting it…
I’ve been thinking about a question from a application developer regarding generating a unique identifier outside of SQL and persisting...
2013-10-03
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Get The Backup History for Databases
Below is a script that I use to find the backup history for all the databases on a single instance. There is an inline ‘WHERE’ clause that is currently...
2013-10-03
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MDX+SSRS #31– Query Designer in SSRS only allows the Measures dimension in the first axis
In Chapter 1 of the book MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook, in the first recipe “Putting data on x and...
2013-10-03 (first published: 2013-09-28)
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Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Intelligent Alert Thresholds
By Steve Jones
At the recent Redgate Summit in Chicago, I demo’d (lightly) the ML based Alert...
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...
Forums
String_agg not working as needed
I'm trying to get this string_agg to put all the 'comments' into one result...
Vectors in SQL Server 2025
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Odd Sequences
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Odd Sequences
What values are returned from this code?
CREATE SEQUENCE NumericSequence
AS NUMERIC(5,1)
START WITH 1.0
INCREMENT BY 0.1;
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
GO
SELECT NEXT VALUE FOR NumericSequence
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