Don’t Abuse the Use Statement
I ran across this article in Visual Studio Magazine that tracks the source of a missing object to an embedded...
2010-11-19
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Blog Posts
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Tuesday
Pragmatic Works - Building Calculations in SSAS 2008 - Brian Knight
PASS - PASS Summit 2010 Recap Round Table - Aaron Nelson
I'll be trying to...
2010-11-19
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Fusion-io, Flash NAND All You Can Eat
Fusion-io has announced general availability of the new Octal. This card is the largest single flash based device I’ve ever...
2010-11-19
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I Don't Worry about My Brand
And I guess the experts would say that I probably should. I know that the professional development presentations by Steve...
2010-11-19
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Off to the Big Apple
I’m heading to New York today, off for SQL Saturday #59. Another travel day, but I am looking forward to...
2010-11-19
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SQL Services on Laptop
I run several SQL Server instances on my laptop, however I’ll keep the services shutdown to conserve resources and then...
2010-11-19
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Un-SQL Friday: Branding
So looks like we have another blog party on our hands, this time courtesy of Jen McCown (Blog | Twitter), one...
2010-11-19
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Un-SQL Friday: Branding?
Following in Midnight DBA’s more interesting half new blog fest topic.
My branding? I don’t have a clue. There, I said...
2010-11-19
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Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free?
I know I do!
The trick is to properly manage your VLFs.
What are VLFs? The short anser is that VLF...
2010-11-19
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – XMLNAMESPACE
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Let’s talk...
2010-11-19
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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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