MySQL TinyInt treated as Boolean
When working with a MySQL database as a source you may experience some unexpected results in your data extracts. Most of the...
2015-04-29
2,190 reads
Business Intelligence & SQL Server Decaffeinated
My PASS Summit 2013 Presentations
I had the honor to speak for the first time at this past PASS Summit 2013 in Charlotte, NC. It...
2013-10-27
842 reads
IT Pro Camp Tampa 2013
This year I was honored to sponsor and speak at IT Pro Camp Tampa 2013. Like always, it is a...
2013-10-27
875 reads
Configuring BIDS 2008 / 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2008 to work with Database & Business Intelligence Projects and Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Working with the SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS Business Intelligence projects along with Database projects in the same Visual Studio 2008...
2013-08-14
2,056 reads
Connecting to the Hortonworks Sandbox v1.3 through IP 192.168.56.101
I recently downloaded the Hortonworks Sandbox v1.3 Hyper-V VM and had a hard time connecting to the included web interface...
2013-08-08
1,590 reads
Presenting 2 sessions at SQLPASS
I’m truly honored to be chosen to speak at PASS Summit 2013. The honor is compounded as I have been...
2013-05-22
663 reads
.Net Code Camp Orlando 2013
This past Saturday March 16th, I had the opportunity to speak once again the .Net Orlando Code Camp. I presented...
2013-03-18
767 reads
I have been appointed as PASS Regional Mentor for the Greater Southeast
I have been appointed as PASS Regional Mentor for the Greater Southeast by PASS (http://www.sqlpass.org). I am truly honored to...
2012-08-21
845 reads
Top 3 Reasons Why Evernote is worth $1 billion to me
Everyone heard about Facebook’s recent purchase of Instagram for $1 billion dollars. No one can imagine how they came with such...
2012-04-11
855 reads
SQL Server Upgrade error: It is not possible to change the SQL Server features to be upgraded in this release. Validation errors. There are no features selected for upgrade.
On a recent project I was asked to “upgrade” a licensed SQL Server 2008R2 Standard Edition to SQL Server 2008R2 Enterprise Edition....
2012-03-30
4,986 reads
Blogs
Daily Coping 17 Sep 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Ethics in Modern Data at Music City Tech 2021
By Will Assaf
On Sept 16, Christine and I presented our joint presentation on Ethics in Modern Data at...
Slides and Video from Building a Regret-free Foundation for your Data Factory Now Available
Last week, Kerry and I delivered a webinar with tips on how to set...
Forums
SQL 2016 SP3 CHECKDB WITH EXTENDED_LOGICAL_CHECKS problem.
This seems to be the same problem which occurred with SQL2017 CU21 and is...
Find all SPs, FNs, and VWs where particular string occurs
I have this task to find all SPs, FNs, and VWs where particular string...
Excel privary levels
There are three Excel privacy levels: Private, Organizational, Public. When Excel's privacy level is...
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