My Thoughts: Report Builder 2.0
General Thoughts
One of my brother’s favorite lines to use in presentations says it best, “If Microsoft had 10 dollars to...
2008-12-02
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Blog Posts
Quickbooks 2009 - Not As Good as 2007
Recently I needed to rearrange some stuff at the office and part of that included moving our install of Quickbooks...
2008-12-02
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The Next Generation DBA
DBA, database developer, analyst, SQL grunt, or whatever your title may be, there is no question that your role will...
2008-12-02
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[Off Topic] Web host is down
For my colleagues and friend who visit my websites (www.bucketofbits.com, www.tyleris.com, www.timmitchell.net), I just discovered that my web host has...
2008-12-01
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American History Quiz
I ran across this history quiz in Jeff Duntemann's blog and thought I'd give it a try. I managed to...
2008-12-01
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Rangers to Masters
The new Certified Master program sounds suspiciously like the Microsoft Certified Architect program, which appears to have been revamped to...
2008-12-01
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Switching to Live Search
Steve Ballmer issued a challenge to MVPs a couple weeks ago, asking them to switch to Live Search this week...
2008-12-01
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Is the PASS Summit Too Big?
That's the question posed by Kalen Delaney in a write up on SQLMag.com. Is a SQL event of more than...
2008-11-30
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Microsoft Certified Master program – Is This The Answer to Certification Woes?
In the past few years, many people - myself included - have expressed a desire to see the quality of the Microsoft...
2008-11-29
1,711 reads
Grouping Sets
I have given a talk about new data types and T-SQL features to three local groups. I am presenting it...
2008-11-28
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Blogs
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
Rambling about Data on Wheels – origins, branding, expansion
By DataOnWheels
I have been asked many times about how the name “Data on Wheels” came...
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits III
On SQL Server 2025, does DBCC CHECKDB support Memory-Optimized tables?
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