PowerPivot – Creating KPIs
Probably one of the most anticipated additions to the latest version of PowerPivot is the ability to create KPIs. PowerPivot...
2011-08-08
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Blog Posts
Putting a Database into Single User Mode
I was recently discussing with a group of budding DBA’s how you go about performing a restore of database. They...
2011-08-08
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Replication Agent Failure
I recently spent several days investigating a replication failure. Finding the answer specific to my problem was difficult, so I...
2011-08-08
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S3OLV August Meeting II
I recently published a post about the upcoming meeting for S3OLV. This post is to serve as an update to the post. It is quite important that a more...
2011-08-08
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S3OLV August Meeting II
I recently published a post about the upcoming meeting for S3OLV. This post is to serve as an update to...
2011-08-08
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Security Is Your Responsibility
My primary responsibility at my organization is no longer to be the security architect and incident response team lead. I...
2011-08-08
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SQL MCM Training – Day 0
For the next 3 weeks I'm in Bellevue/WA for the SQL MCM training provided by Paul
Randal, Kimberly Tripp, and Bob...
2011-08-08
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SSRS Export En Masse
Have you ever found yourself in need of exporting all of the reports from a Report Server? I have found myself in need of extracting all RDLs from a...
2011-08-08
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SSRS Export En Masse
Have you ever found yourself in need of exporting all of the reports from a Report Server? I have found...
2011-08-08
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Tools to make creating MDX much easier
For those of you who use MDX, I’m sure you share my opinion that MDX is a lot harder to...
2011-08-08
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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