Successful BI for Educational Institutions
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2013-03-15
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #40 - Proportional Fill within a Filegroup
T-SQL Tuesday #40 is underway, and this month's host is Jennifer McCown (blog|twitter). The topic is about File and Filegroup...
2013-03-15 (first published: 2013-03-12)
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T-SQL Tuesday #40– File and Filegroups
It’s the second Tuesday of the month and time for T-SQL Tuesday again. This is a monthly blog party, where...
2013-03-15 (first published: 2013-03-12)
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 10.1: DDL with DMX
by Steve Bolton
As users become more familiar with software, they typically follow a progression that begins with learning the...
2013-03-14 (first published: 2013-03-11)
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Customizing SSMS – Hiding the panels
This is a short series on some customizations in SSMS to make it visually more appealing.
As a presenter, I’ve learned...
2013-03-14
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Logging into Azure and Office365 with Different Accounts
I have been doing some work on the Modern Apps Live! content that required me to use both an Office365...
2013-03-14
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PowerShell Usage in DBA Work — Case Study 3/7
As a DBA, sometimes we may need to demonstrate to some stakeholders when a sql server instance was last rebooted,...
2013-03-14
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Renaming Server with SQL
I recently had to rename my laptop on which I have two SQL server instances. I have a default instance...
2013-03-14
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SQL Server : Part 4 :Explaining the Non Clustered Index Structure
A table can have only one clustered index as the data rows are stored in the order of the clustered...
2013-03-14
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SQL Server under source control with Team Foundation Services and Red-Gate Source Control
During the last few years I’ve been involved in database source control management and release plans tasks. These are important...
2013-03-14
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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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Backing Up a DMK
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