Business Intelligence Maturity Assessment
Do you ever wonder how your business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) environment compares to other companies and what...
2013-06-11
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Blog Posts
First Look: Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Last week at TechEd 2013 in New Orleans Microsoft publicly released details about the SQL Server 2014 CTP 1. Here...
2013-06-11
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Installing Power View for Multidimensional Models
Power View was a new reporting option added in the SQL Server 2012 release as part of the SharePoint integrated...
2013-06-11
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Maidenhead SQL Server User Group 11th June with Chris Webb and David Morrison
Tonight I am organising a User Group at Maidenhead in the UK which marks the start of a huge month of SQL...
2013-06-11
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Nested Loops, Parallelism and Confusion
I’m 30 today.
In addition, it’s been 10 years since I started working with SQL Server.
In my twenties, I fell in...
2013-06-11
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PASS Business Analytics VC presents Mark Tabladillo – Framework for Data Mining
Please join the Business Analytics Virtual Chapter as Mark Tabladillo talks about Best Practices for building a Framework for Data...
2013-06-11
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2013
SQL Saturday is a global event to bring Information Technology speakers and professionals together for a community-driven, community-attended free day...
2013-06-11
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SSAS Cube Backup strategies and Step by Step approach to setup and configure backup
There are different ways to take Cube database backups.
SQL Agent JobXMLA script for backupROBOT jobASCMD commandSSIS PackageSSIS packageAMO (Analysis Management...
2013-06-11 (first published: 2013-06-05)
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TechEd 2013–Favorite Sessions
At TechEd 2013, I attended many excellent Business Intelligence / Data Platform sessions and thought I’d share an overview of a...
2013-06-11
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T-SQL Tuesday – Evil Plan Operators – #TSQL2sDay
This month, Rob Farley (Blog | @Rob_Farley) is running T-SQL Tuesday on plan operators. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blogging event where a number...
2013-06-11
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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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