The STUFF function
While I was at the 2011 Pass Summit I was given the following piece of code to create a comma...
2013-03-14
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Blog Posts
Why you need Business Intelligence
First lets define what Business Intelligence (BI) is. My favorite definitions:
Forrester Research: “Business Intelligence is a set of methodologies, processes,...
2013-03-14
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Adding a Linked Server with ‘Oracle Provider for OLE DB’ as the provider – Proceed with caution !
Adding a linked server is an easy task which can be done at any point of time. I was under...
2013-03-13
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Atlanta MDF Presents Five Pre-Cons to choose from in Atlanta Friday, May 17
SQL Saturday is returning to Atlanta on May 18th at Georgia State University – Alpharetta, 3775 Brookside Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA 30022
The...
2013-03-13
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Atlanta MDF Presents Five Pre-Cons to choose from in Atlanta Friday, May 17
SQL Saturday is returning to Atlanta on May 18th at Georgia State University – Alpharetta, 3775 Brookside Pkwy, Alpharetta, GA 30022 The day before the event Atlanta MDF is...
2013-03-13
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Cleaning orphaned SIDs after a SQL Server VM template deployment
A few weeks ago (or longer, I’m behind on email again) Nate Palm (LinkedIn) messaged me after the most recent...
2013-03-13 (first published: 2013-03-11)
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Find missing indexes using SQL Servers index related DMVs
Today, we experienced performance issues with few databases that are hosted on one of our most critical production SQL Server....
2013-03-13
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Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Basics of Indexes in SQL Server
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Basics of Indexes in SQL Server: Indexes in SQL Server: If you see a book, in...
2013-03-13
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Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Basics of Triggers in SQL Server
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Basics of Triggers in SQL Server: SQL Triggers: A trigger is a procedural code like stored...
2013-03-13
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Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Control Statements in T-SQL
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Control Statements in T-SQL: Control statements are used to control execution flow within a T-SQL.Here I...
2013-03-13
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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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