Reblog: August 23 to August 29
I’ve always been a fan of the feeling when I find an old blog post that’s got just the information...
2013-08-30
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Blog Posts
SQL in the City 2013 US Tour
It was a huge honor to be chosen for the 2013 US tour of SQL in the City. Red Gate...
2013-08-30
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Before Asking for Help...
I have a standard rule that I use before going and bugging a co-worker or posting via social media/message forum about...
2013-08-29
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Data Mining with Excel Q&A
Thank you to everyone who attended my free webinar on August 29, 2013 where I talked about using the Data...
2013-08-29
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Fixing a Bug: DBCC CHECKDB data purity checks are skipped for master and model
Fellow MVP Paul Randal just blogged about an issue he has discovered with how the master and model databases are...
2013-08-29
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How to Tell If Your Users are Connecting to the Availability Group Listener
You've spent a lot of time planning and building out a new SQL Server 2012 environment complete with Availability Group...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-27)
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MDX #29–Co-authored MDX with SSAS 2012 Cookbook
I have been absent from this blog for the last few months. For those who have noticed, I’d like to...
2013-08-29
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Resume hoarders
Unfortunately in my line of work as a consultant, I am contacted far too often by resume hoarders, who are...
2013-08-29
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The effect of VLF size on shrinking the log.
I was wondering the other day how VLF (Virtual Log File) sizes effected shrinking the log file so I decided...
2013-08-29 (first published: 2013-08-26)
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Windows Azure SQL Database and Throttling
When I present on Windows Azure SQL Database, one of the biggest concerns comes up around throttling. Just the concept...
2013-08-29
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Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Work with On-Premises...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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