What is Microsoft TAP and RDP?
Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) are ways for Microsoft to get early feedback on new products or product...
2011-10-24
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Blog Posts
Gaining SQL Server SysAdmin Access
I’ve seen this come a few times at work and I’m sure most you have experienced something similar.
Someone or an...
2011-10-22
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Giving back–Colorado GiveCamp has started (#CoGiveCamp)
The Colorado GiveCamp is underway with 40 volunteers and 5 charities. Gabe Villa ( blog | twitter ), Kevin Krueger ( blog | twitter ), Jason...
2011-10-22
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Fun Pix
Various photo uploads from the past year.
Filed under: Blog Tagged: Humor, pictures, syndicated
2011-10-21
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SSIS – Can’t Enable/Disable within Data Flow Tab
This is my biggest gripe with SSIS: I have a data flow task, and within that I’m pulling data from...
2011-10-21
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Why is -fill in the feature- Enterprise-Only?
Steve Jones (Blog/@Way0utWest) recently wrote a great blog post proposing that Microsoft should go from having edition-only features (most of...
2011-10-21
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Best PASS Summit Ever (so far)
I have to admit that the 2011 PASS Summit was such an amazing experience and there was so much to...
2011-10-20
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Denver SQL Server User’s Group Meeting on October 20, 2011
The Denver SQL Server User’s Group will be having their monthly meeting tonight at the Microsoft office in the Denver...
2011-10-20
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Finding orphaned database users
Database users can become orphaned for a few reasons. For example, a database restore to another instance or deleting the...
2011-10-20
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Jeremy Huppatz presents Row Versioned Data Warehouse
Subject: Row Versioned Data WarehousesLevel: 200-300 (Intermediate)
Start Time: Thursday, December 15th, 2011 8:00 PM US Central Time
Presenter: Jeremy Huppatz...
2011-10-20
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Microsoft Security Changes and SQL...
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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