December PASSMN Meeting Today
Getting SQL Server for
Christmas! Happy holidays and seasons greetings!
Don’t forget, PASSMN meeting is today. As I’ve said before,...
2010-12-14
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Blog Posts
Do IF statements cause recompiles?
I heard this one over at SSC a while back. “Avoid IF statements in stored procedures as they result in...
2010-12-14
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Group Level Page Numbering using Reporting Services 2008 R2
Using SQL Server Reporting Services, we have always had the ability to use the built in fields (the Globals collection)...
2010-12-14
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Notes from Mirroring Deep Dive Session with Mohammed Sharaf: Microsoft Premier Engineer (I can never learn enough about Mirroring :)
One thing I have gotten wrong before, or not elaborated on during a past presentation on mirroring, although Roman Rehak mentioned...
2010-12-14
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Soft Skills Matter More Than You Think
Over my career I’ve seen interviews fall into three categories:
The technical part. Questions on trace flags, wait states, backups, etc,...
2010-12-14
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SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries (Dec 2010)
I have been quite the slacker (by my usual standards) for blogging over the past few weeks, but my excuse...
2010-12-14
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SQL Server Hardware Book
One reason (besides laziness) that I have been fairly light on my blogging lately is that I have been working...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – Business Requirements
I think a common area that is easily overlooked when it comes to requirements and interpretation of requirements is report creation. A common problem is that there are no...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 – Business Requirements
Business Requirements
We have made it yet another month and to yet another episode in the continuing saga known as TSQL...
2010-12-14
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 - What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants
So this month’s blog party is being held by non-other than Steve Jones (blog|@Way0utwest) of SQL Server Central fame. This...
2010-12-14
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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