DQS Validation Rules on Composite Domains

In Data Quality Services, composite domains can be created to associate together two or more natural domains within a knowledge...

Finding the Default Trace File

A post more for me than for anyone else, since I’ll look for something in the default trace and I...

Installing SSAS 2012

I don’t usually write posts like this but there have been a few substantial changes to how SSAS 2012 is...

Moving from Droid X to Droid Razr Maxx

It’s been not quite two years since I moved from a Blackberry to a Droid X. The X turned out...

My Evolving Goals for Attending Conferences

The first conference I went to back in 1999 I attended every session, the bonus sessions, the breakfasts, everything. It...

Service Broker Sample: Multi-Threading

Introduction

Service Broker is a cool new feature since SQL Server 2005. Yes, SQL 2012 just came out so it’s hardly...

Service Broker Sample: Multi-Threading

Introduction
Service Broker is a cool new feature since SQL Server 2005. Yes, SQL 2012 just came out so it’s hardly...

SQLSaturday #158 NYC Event Update! - Spread the word...

It's about three months to  to SQLSaturday #158  in NYC, and we're hard at work nailing down all the little...

SSAS: Duplicate Attribute Key Error

One type of error that arises occasionally during SSAS cube processing is the ‘duplicate attribute key’ error.  The error message...

SSIS 2012 Copy or Duplicate Environments

In SSIS 2012 there is a great new feature called environments. They can be thought of as a collection of parameters...