Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Defining Variables
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Defining Variables: Defining Variables in SQL Server: Like other programming languages T-SQL allows to defining your...
2013-03-13
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Blog Posts
Slide Deck–SQL Saturday Exeter
In my session (An Introduction to SQL Server Virtualisation) at SQL Saturday Exeter I told the attendees that I would...
2013-03-13
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SQL Server 2012 Virtual Lab with Clustering using Hyper-V
After having a great opportunity to attend a Beta course for Hyper-V with Windows 2012 at Learning Tree, I decided...
2013-03-13
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The Work Life Balance for Men
A great piece by LZ Granderson, and one that really make me stop and think a bit. Work and life...
2013-03-13
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Top BI Enhancements for SQL Server 2012 Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Top BI Enhancements for SQL Server 2012” at the Houston Area SQL Server User Group Monthly Meeting.
Here...
2013-03-13
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Building My Next Workstation–Part 6 (The End)
Let’s start with a quick review of the pieces and what I paid:
ItemCostAntec P280 Case$90 (may be higher now)ASUS P8Z77-V...
2013-03-12
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Day 30 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery (T-SQL Tuesday #40): Using Partial Availability and Initialize from Backup to Replicate a Partial Database
It’s been a tough and long road to 31 Days of Disaster Recovery. It’s been very difficult coming up with...
2013-03-12
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Installing SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012
Everyone knows that installing SQL server requires .Net frameworks 3.5, and it normally install by default, when you run the...
2013-03-12
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Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) Version 2
Version 2 of Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is apparently due this month (and can be ordered as of March 1st). The official...
2013-03-12
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Script to clean up “Windows” logins no longer in AD
I was scanning http://dba.stackexchange.com and ran across the following question:
http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/31478/sql-server-script-to-delete-accounts-no-longer-in-active-directory
Basically the OP wanted to know how to get rid of...
2013-03-12 (first published: 2013-03-01)
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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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