O, There’s the Data: Using OData in SSIS
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open specification created Microsoft to enable exposing data in a standard way from...
2012-07-23
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Blog Posts
PowerPivot default measure aggregation
One of the PowerPivot advantages is flexibility of changing measure aggregation for instance changing average to minimum. PowerPivot applies default...
2012-07-23
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PowerPivot hide fields and unhide in Excel 2013
In this PowerPivot tutorial I show how to improve user experience by hiding fields from PivotTable (client tool) so user...
2012-07-23
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Should We Customize the SQLSaturday Hashtag on Twitter?
The question was posed on Twitter recently (or perhaps more along the lines of “why can’t we”), suggesting that our...
2012-07-23
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SQL CHECK CONSTRAINT Syntax
We have now added SQL CHECK CONSTRAINT to Exam Guide 70-461 Querying SQL Server 2012 and SQL Tutorial
2012-07-23
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SQL DEFAULT CONSTRAINT Syntax
This time we show how to use SQL DEFAULT CONSTRAINT to provide values for fields that are not given a...
2012-07-23
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SQL PRIMARY KEY CONSTRAINT Syntax
In this tutorial we show how to use ALTER TABLE and add Primary key constraint. This tutorial support our Exam...
2012-07-23
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2
It's already a long time since I have blogged how
to configure your Windows- and SQL Servers for SQL Server 2012...
2012-07-23 (first published: 2012-07-19)
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SQL Server 2012 and summertime in London
The week just passed I have been teaching Learning Tree course 2108 SQL Server 2012 Database Administration in London. It...
2012-07-23
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TechEd Europe 2012 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd Europe 2012 and they are available for free! What a great...
2012-07-23
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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...
Creating a Simple and Flexible Random Password Generator in SQL Server
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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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