Re-blog – December 9 – December 15
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2011-12-16
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Blog Posts
The ‘Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0' Provider Is Not Registered on the Local Machine
If you have used SSIS to move data from something like Access or more commonly Excel, it is a good...
2011-12-16
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T-SQL Tuesday #25 – T-SQL Tricks
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again, and this time Allen White (@SQLRunr | blog) is asking for your tricks. If you...
2011-12-16 (first published: 2011-12-13)
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View execution plan for a sproc in the wild
Got stored procedure problems? I feel sorry for you son.
Here's a quick query to pull the cached execution plan out...
2011-12-16
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Why Am I Amazed By a 2000 Page Word Doc?
It’s not uncommon to have information shared in a Word doc, but I was surprised recently to open one up...
2011-12-16
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Why did I start blogging?
This post is in response to #meme15 started by Jason Strate (b|t). Two questions were asked in the first assignment....
2011-12-16
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#meme15 – Why Do You Blog?
Jason Strate (blog|@StrateSQL) is starting a new blog meme: #meme15. The overall topic of #meme15 will be social networking, obviously...
2011-12-15
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Execute Permissions
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach...
2011-12-15
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How to change the SQL Server service account
It’s easy. First you click here:
Then you find the SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 program group
Open those and then...
2011-12-15
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PASS Board of Directors – Who I’m Voting For
I was inspired by fellow blogger and all around good guy Nic Cain (Twitter, blog) to write about the PASS BoD...
2011-12-15
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Blogs
SQL Server Security – TDE Encryption
By Vinay Thakur
Transparent Data Encryption(TDE): TDE was initially introduced in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition; this...
A Las Vegas Break
By Steve Jones
Only a little break for me. I’m actually heading to Las Vegas today for ...
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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