oPASS Meeting Notes for December 2009
We started off our end of year meeting with our standard networking meet and greet. It’s going smoother, people are...
2009-12-13
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Blog Posts
Where Should I Go From Here?
I’m closing in on vacation – finally – and one of the things I’ll have in the back of my head while...
2009-12-13
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Email: Getting My Attention, The Wrong Way
I was scrolling through my professional email as my wife drove me in to work (my car is being looked...
2009-12-11
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Load Windows 7 with a Thumb Drive
With the explosion of Netbooks, it has become important to find new ways to load operating systems. I recently picked...
2009-12-11
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Locking Scripts
Thanks to everyone who attended my TechNet Thrive! and Nashville SQL Server User Group presentations this week! I hope it...
2009-12-11
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Orlando Tiki Hut Roadshow Silverlight Edition
Assuming no major problems at work, I’m heading to the South side of town the afternoon of Dec 14, 2009...
2009-12-11
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Reporting Services Carriage Return
Often when designing a report you may find a need to concatenate values in an expression. For example, you want...
2009-12-11
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Running SSIS 32-bit drivers or tasks on a 64 bit machine
Running SSIS on a 64-bit machine has several caveat that developers need to be aware of. Tasks like the ActiveX...
2009-12-11
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Running SSIS 32-bit drivers or tasks on a 64 bit machine
This is an answer to a forum question on www.bidn.com
Running SSIS on a 64-bit machine has several caveat that developers...
2009-12-11
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Some SQL Server 2005/2008 Monitoring Stored Procedures
Here is a collection of five stored procedures that are very useful for monitoring the overall health of a SQL...
2009-12-11
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Blogs
March 2026 SQL Server Security Updates
By Brian Kelley
On Patch Tuesday, in addition to OS and Office security patches, Microsoft also released...
How Fabric Mirroring Transformed with SQL Server 2025
When mirroring was first released for Azure SQL Database, it used Change Data Capture...
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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