Two New Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008
On July 17, Microsoft released two new Cumulative Updates for SQL Server 2008. The first cumulative update is SQL Server...
2012-08-01
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Blog Posts
Bad business practices damage your company, KRG Technology
I just composed and sent this message to eleven members of a single California-based recruitment company. I’ll let the email...
2012-07-31
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Improve DBA Operation Productivity – Part Two
As a DBA, we have to take various actions based on huge amount of information received. In one perspective, our...
2012-07-31
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OLAP PivotTable Extensions Update
OLAP PivotTable Extensions is a really cool free add-in for Excel that’s been around for quite a while now. It...
2012-07-31
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Password Resets
I read this piece from Troy Hunt, which is a long look at the password reset process for a web...
2012-07-31
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Reading Excel into SSIS via OpenXML Scripting
Reading Excel data isn't easy. It should be, but there's a lot of unfortunate barriers in the way that I've discussed before. They boil down to one main reason:...
2012-07-31
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SCRIPT: Basic Information About Indexes
I’m having a little fun with documenting basic information about indexes in my current project. I’m posting the scripts here...
2012-07-31
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 4: Adding new Replicas
In the last 2 blog postings you have learned how to setup your first Availability
Group with SQL Server 2012. Today...
2012-07-31 (first published: 2012-07-26)
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#GetHawt – The Summer 2012 Edition
Jen McCown started a #GetHawt set of posts last year and I think it went well. It must have, so...
2012-07-30
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August 2012 S3OLV Meeting
Well well well. It has certainly been a long time between announcements on the blog about meetings for the Las Vegas SQL Server Users Group. We have had to...
2012-07-30
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Rewards from Work
By Steve Jones
The greatest rewards come from working on something that nobody has words for. If...
Overcoming Challenges: Navigating Common Pitfalls in FinOps Adoption
By HeyMo0sh
Working in DevOps, I’ve seen FinOps do amazing things for cloud cost control, but...
Why your data still can’t answer a simple question
Every organization I talk to has the same problem dressed up in different clothes....
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The day-to-day pressures of a...
Analysis Services Model w/ Direct Query and (Default Veritpaq)
Analysis Services (either the integrated workspace in Power BI or on a SQL Server)...
Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences IV
When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?
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