How to Create a Reporting Services 2005/2008 Template
At most large companies one business requirement is that all reports have the same look and feel. This may vary...
2009-11-20
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Blog Posts
I’m Missing Data
One of the things that I thought about doing after the 2008 PASS Summit was to bring someone along with...
2009-11-20
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MDX, DMX, and XMLA Templates
One of the most underused features in SSMS is the additional templates that are available for MDX, DMX, and XMLA....
2009-11-20
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PASS Summit 2009 Final Thoughts…or What I've Learned From The 2009 Summit
Last week I wrote a day by day recount of my PASS Summit experience (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday). Since...
2009-11-20
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Should DBAs have local administrator rights?
This was actually spurred by a post from Ted Krueger (@onpnt), which led to a short, but hearty, discussion on...
2009-11-20
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SQL Job Ownership Article on SSC.Com
Today, Please see my featured article appearing on SQLServerCentral.com discussing SQL Agent Job Ownership.
Have you ever had a situation...
2009-11-19
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Book Review: The Cleaner
I read The Deceived a few weeks back and enjoyed it, even though it was the 2nd book in the...
2009-11-19
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Licensing For Everyone
I used to really try not to over-license in the small companies I worked at. It seems I’d spend a...
2009-11-19
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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...
2009-11-19
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PDC 2009 Laptop Giveaway
During Steven Sinofsky’s keynote address at PDC09 today, he started telling a story about how some of the engineers in...
2009-11-19
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers