The Mentoring Experiment is taking applications
If you would like a mentor, we’ are taking applications at The Mentoring Experiment. We ran this last year and...
2012-07-20
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Blog Posts
When SQLCommunity disappoints....
Everyone who is involved in, and follows me in the SQL Server Community, and my blog, knows, that I am one...
2012-07-20 (first published: 2012-05-08)
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Contained Databases – Server Setting Matters
In doing some additional testing on contained databases, I decided to create a new database on a new test VM.
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2012-07-19
2,151 reads
Excel 2013 download and install
Office 2013 Preview is not avialable. I'm particularly interested in Excel 2013 and new self-server BI features so I decided...
2012-07-19
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Excel 2013 enable PowerPivot addin
In this blog post we cover instructions on how to enable PowerPivot in Excel 2013 (you can follow them in...
2012-07-19
1,158 reads
Excel 2013 Power View set up
In this blog post I will share steps I have taken to set up PowerView using Excel 2013. Hopefully tomorrow...
2012-07-19
979 reads
Notes from the July 2012 MagicPASS Meeting
Quick notes from the MagicPASS meeting:
Kendal Van Dyke still the king when it comes to explaining what’s going on with...
2012-07-19
719 reads
Send me your pictures
If you got some with me at SQL in the City last week I London, or anytime in the last...
2012-07-19
1,062 reads
SQL Audit 102 – Reading audit output
Last time we went over the basics of creating a SQL Audit. Now obviously once you’ve gotten your audit in...
2012-07-19 (first published: 2012-07-16)
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SQL Saturday #150 and TechDay Baton Rouge–BI 1 track
The SQL Saturday/TechDay in Baton Rouge will be the forth annual this year. The Business Intelligence sessions occupy 2 tracks...
2012-07-19
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
Advice I Like: Knots
By Steve Jones
Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
Shifting Mindsets: Why FinOps is Essential for Cloud Efficiency
By HeyMo0sh
As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
Forums
Windows logins for users migrated from DomainA to DomainB
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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