Reblog: May 3 to May 9
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-05-10
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Blog Posts
Schizophrenic Windows 8
I’ve been using Windows 8 almost exclusively for about 3 weeks. I got a new desktop a couple months back,...
2013-05-10
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Speaking in Columbia and Charlotte Next Week
I'm speaking at two user groups next week.
Tuesday - Midlands PASS - May 14
I'll be giving a presentation on PowerShell to help...
2013-05-10
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 12: Accessing SSDM with AMO, ADOMD, SSIS, XMLA and RS
by Steve Bolton
It may set a SQLServerCentral record for the thickest alphabet soup of acronyms ever crammed into a...
2013-05-09
2,635 reads
Book Review: Business in the Trenches
I’m trying to improve.
That’s at just about everything too. I know I don’t know enough or have enough skills to...
2013-05-09
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Bring Offline File Online — Modify SQL Server Metadata
In my last post, I demonstrated how to mount a database with missing NDF files. In the end, we still have issues removing tables created over missing files, the...
2013-05-09
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Bring Offline File Online — Modify SQL Server Metadata
In my last post, I demonstrated how to mount a database with missing NDF files. In the end, we still...
2013-05-09
1,561 reads
Data cleansing in SSIS, DQS, and MDS
Data cleansing can be done via SSIS as well as Data Quality Services (DQS) and Master Data Services (MDS). The...
2013-05-09
2,673 reads
Hunt Down Tables Without Clustered Indexes
This one's a gimme, but an underrated utility script when I enter a new environment and look for low-hanging fruit...
2013-05-09 (first published: 2013-05-03)
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PowerSQL – SQL Inventory Generation – Email – High Level Details
Inventory allows anyone to quickly and easily assess any environment. For few servers, answering Inventory questions might not be so...
2013-05-09
1,205 reads
Blogs
Car Update September 2026
By Steve Jones
Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
Local Models Using GPUs with Ollama
By Steve Jones
Can you use your GPUs when running a local model under Ollama? You can,...
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Checking the Error Log II
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