The affordable self-service BI revolution has started.
I am officially announcing that I have now become an independent consultant and business owner. Becoming independent has always been...
2012-01-30
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Business Intelligence & SQL Server Decaffeinated
Afterthoughts: IT Pro Camp Orlando 2012
This past Saturday January 21, 2012 I had the opportunity to speak at my first IT Pro Camp in Orlando,...
2012-01-24
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Master Data Services Error: Resolving from a long-running stucked Staging Batch with Status “Queued to Clear” or “Not Running”
In some ocassions, you may run into a runaway, long-running or stucked staging batch with Master Data Services in SQL Server 2008...
2011-12-14
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Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components
I recently bumped into this very exhaustive list of SSIS tasks, components and samples in CodePlex http://ssisctc.codeplex.com. The list is maintained by...
2011-12-14
1,321 reads
SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services Error: The required .svc handler mappings are not installed in IIS.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC 0) has a confirmed issue with Master Data Services configuration. The following error...
2011-11-29
1,740 reads
SQL Saturday 86 BI Edition Tampa 2011: Afterthoughts
Wow! Just Wow! That’s all I can say to describe how great SQL Saturday 86 was on November 5th in Tampa,...
2011-11-16
1,282 reads
The CASE of the missing non-NULL T-SQL Error: None of the result expressions in a CASE specification can be NULL.
Recently, while doing some data scrubbing for a customer I got an interesting error in SSMS with one of my...
2011-11-16
1,877 reads
GiveCamp Tampa 2011
This past weekend I participated at GiveCamp Tampa 2011 (http://www.givecamptampabay.org/) as part as the Worldwide GiveCamp (http://www.givecamp.org) weekend sponsored by...
2011-10-24
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Todo lo que debes saber sobre SSIS en 1 hora!
Gracias a lo asistentes de mi charla Todo lo que debes saber sobre SSIS en 1 hora! en el evento...
2011-10-20
1,319 reads
MDS Error: MDMMemberStatus does not de-activate members through the StgMemberAttribute table
Master Data Services provides a way of de-activating entity members using the StgMemberAttribute table as described in Books On Line...
2011-10-11
1,012 reads
Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
The day-to-day pressures of a DBA team, and how we can work smarter with automation and AI
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Migrate SSRS Reports to PowerBI Report Server in SQL Server 2025
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Identities and Sequences III
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Identities and Sequences III
When thinking of the Identity property for auto incrementing columns and sequences for the same action, which can be used with the BIGINT data type?
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