Cloudy Days Ahead
Microsoft is investing heavily in cloud computing with several online services available
under the Azure Platform.
SQL Azure
The SQL Azure cloud...
2010-11-13
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Blog Posts
PASS 2010 Summit Announcements and New SQL Server Developments
To say that this was a very full conference would be an understatement. The
SQL Server platform has grown to be...
2010-11-13
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Free SQL Server Training for the Week of November 15, 2010
Tuesday
SQL Lunch - Get a Lever and Pick Any Turtle: Lifting with Metadata - Cade Roux
Pragmatic Works - SSIS Dataflow - Designing for Performance...
2010-11-12
799 reads
How I like to work
This is a great sign. I see if every time I go to Brother’s BBQ in Denver and it never...
2010-11-12
770 reads
My Fat Finger and the Target Invocation Exception
I was creating an SSIS package recently and ran into the “TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of...
2010-11-12
721 reads
PASS Summit 2010-Thursday
Quick recap of yesterday afternoon: blur! I know I did stuff, but the pace is brisk and I’m just keeping...
2010-11-12
547 reads
SQL Rally Precon Vote Results
The votes have all been tabulated and during PASS this week the top pre conference seminars were announced for SQL Rally.Thankfully...
2010-11-12
509 reads
SSIS : Using variables as a source in a Data Flow Component
Currently, none of the existing Data Flow sources allow you to source variables. Once again in my quest for performance, I look to keep as much data as possible...
2010-11-12
12 reads
SSIS : Using variables as a source in a Data Flow Component
Currently, none of the existing Data Flow sources allow you to source variables. Once again in my quest for performance,...
2010-11-12
818 reads
SSIS : Using variables as a source in a Data Flow Component
Currently, none of the existing Data Flow sources allow you to source
variables. Once again in my quest for performance, I look to keep as much
data as possible in memory....
2010-11-12
1,206 reads
Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers