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
2,845 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
851 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
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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
2,630 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
1,642 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
684 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
783 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
888 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
871 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
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Blogs
Audit – Security Compliance Frameworks (Part 1)
By Vinay Thakur
This blog series on Audit/Compliance/Security, this is first blog where we would discuss about...
Restore SQL Server Database to an OrbStack Container
In the previous post, we've built a SQL Server 2025 sandbox in an OrbStack...
Day of Data Baton Rouge Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my talk today at Day of data Baton Rouge...
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Limiting Checkpoints
If I use the -k parameter with a number after it, what does this change in SQL Server?
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