Madison SQL Saturday (#SQLSat206) Coming Up
It’s coming up in just a couple weeks… the SQL Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin. On April 6th, a couple hundred...
2013-03-20
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Blog Posts
New SQLTreeo Version
We are glad to announce that new SQLTreeo SSMS Add-In was published.
List of new features/enhancements are following:
Local storage support...
2013-03-20
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PowerPoint–My Dashboard and Report Design Tool
At some point I think that I am becoming a Microsoft Office specialist as opposed to a BI Architect. All...
2013-03-20
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PowerShell Usage in DBA Work – Case Study 5/7
One challenge in a super-multiple server (say a few hundred servers) environment is to know what sql services (SSRS/SSAS/SSIS/Engine/Agent etc)...
2013-03-20
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Retrieve unsaved query
I was working on a remote machine and while I was away, the machine was restarted. Lost the scripts I...
2013-03-20
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Retrieving the next or previous element node value in an Xml blob using XQuery
It’s been a little while since I wrote a blog post on my favourite subject but this is from a...
2013-03-20 (first published: 2013-03-13)
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Apply CU2 for SQL2012 SP1 – Fix for Windows Installer starting repeatedly and causing CPU spikes !
CU2 for SQLServer 2012 SP1 is one key update which you should review and deploy if found necessary. I have...
2013-03-19 (first published: 2013-03-15)
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Benefits of using views in a BI solution
Using SQL Server views throughout a Business Intelligence (BI) solution can provide a tremendous amount of benefits. Here is a...
2013-03-19
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Cumulative Updates - SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU3
As part of theirIncremental Service Modelling , Microsoft have released SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update #3.http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2812412
This CU contains 38 fixes and is pertinent for versions 11.0.3000...
2013-03-19
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Do You Know sys.dm_exec_text_query_plan?
One of the most fundamental DMF’s a SQL Server DBA should know is sys.dm_exec_query_plan.
This Dynamic Management Function allows us to see...
2013-03-19 (first published: 2013-03-12)
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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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