energy
Back when I was trying to start a business and unknowingly heading towards a economic cliff, I read all sorts...
2013-07-10
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Blog Posts
Hung SQL Server Restores from Tivoli Storage Manager/Tivoli Data Protection
I ran into this with a client last night when trying to restore their SQL Server data warehouse database from...
2013-07-10
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Report from a Cube in Reporting Services
Data warehousing has become a staple of businesses to help make business decisions. From these data warehouses you can develop...
2013-07-10 (first published: 2013-07-08)
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Security Questions: Logins Not In Use
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’sTraining on the T’s, I...
2013-07-10
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Security Questions: Logins, Credentials, and Proxies
As I mentioned in the introductory post, during the Introduction to SQL Server Security session for Pragmatic Work’sTraining on the T’s, I...
2013-07-10
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SQL Server: All About SQL Server Statistics : Consolidated post
Statistics is the one of the important factor which helps the optimizer to choose the right execution plan.At the same...
2013-07-10
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Find out orphan database file on disk
Sometimes you detach databases, or you delete a database which is in restoring status, the data and log file will...
2013-07-09
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PCI Compliance Presentation on July 17, 2013
Next week I’ll be doing a new presentation about PCI compliance – aka dealing with credit cards – online (follow this link...
2013-07-09
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Power BI for Office 365
Announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 is Power BI for Office 365:
Power BI for Office 365 is a cloud-based business intelligence...
2013-07-09
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PowerSQL – Find OS and Memory Usage Details – Multi Server Script – No Input files
Multi Server script to find OS and Memory details. It doesn’t require a text file as its input but you...
2013-07-09
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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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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