Using PowerPivot to Monitor Reporting Services
PowerPivot is a powerful new tool from Microsoft that has been improved even more in the 2012 release, which you...
2012-06-12
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Blog Posts
Creating a Filetable
How do you create a filetable? I assume you’ve enabled Filestream and created a filegroup for your filestream and filetable...
2012-06-11 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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ORM Tools
ORM tools. They’re great. They’re evil.
In the right hands, used the proper way, they can be a very powerful, very...
2012-06-11
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Performance reviews – Self-evaluations
My annual performance review at work is coming up shortly, and this year they’ve decided to do things a bit...
2012-06-11
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RANKING Function in plain SQL
Below examples will show that we can still write a pure sql query for RANK, DENSE_RANK and ROW_NUMBER without using RANK() function.DECLARE @StudentScore TABLE(StudentName VARCHAR(1),StudentScore INT)INSERT @StudentScore VALUES ('A',85),...
2012-06-11
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RANKING Function in plain SQL
Below examples will show that we can still write a pure sql query for RANK, DENSE_RANK and ROW_NUMBER without using...
2012-06-11
321 reads
Slipping in a Break
I know some people like long holidays, but I tend to prefer short ones. Today is one of those breaks...
2012-06-11
858 reads
Sorry, Mikko, the box was already open
In a blog post F-Secure's Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), indicated that with the US participating in cyberattacks...
2012-06-11 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (June 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements, including...
2012-06-11
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Data Quality; the road to Accurate Reporting
I am sure you have heard of the term; garbage in garbage out. This maxim is even more true when...
2012-06-10
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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