Speaking at PASS Summit 2012
Today I’m thrilled and humbled to announce that I will be speaking 3 times at PASS Summit in November 6-9! ...
2012-06-19
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Devin Knight
Command Line Prompts for Checking Active Directory Membership
Using Active Directory groups are a great way to manage and maintain security for a solution. Think about if you...
2012-06-13
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New SSIS 2012 Expressions
SSIS 2012 has added a few new expression functions and I thought I’d spend a short time detailing each.
LEFT
The LEFT...
2012-06-05
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SSIS Project Connection Managers
With the new Project Deployment Model in SSIS developers are gaining the benefit of a new design time only feature...
2012-05-31
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Converting to the SSIS 2012 Project Deployment Model
The new project deployment model in SSIS 2012 is the new standard for how packages are created, configured and deployed. ...
2012-05-22
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Upgrading Packages to SSIS 2012
Many of you may now or in the future have the need to upgrade your SSIS packages to the new...
2012-05-16
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SQL Rally Wrap Up
Another SQL Rally has wrapped up in Dallas, TX and it was great event. My favorite part about these larger...
2012-05-11
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 6: Making the Decision
We’ve completed reviewing the major Microsoft tools and now you have to make “The Decision”. Which tool(s) is the best...
2012-05-02
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OPASS April Meeting Recap
Last Thursday I had the pleasure of speaking in Orlando, FL at the OPASS monthly meeting. I spoke on Extending...
2012-04-24
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 5: Power View
In part five of this on going series about choosing the right reporting tool we will discuss the newest of...
2012-04-17
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Blogs
Keeping Redshift System Table History Past 7 Days with S3 Tables
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
Updating the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
T-SQL Tuesday #202 Invitation: That One SQL Server Outage You’ll Never Forget
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
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Practical Ways to Approach SQL Server Problems and Case Studies
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
Measuring Productivity
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Importing Excel files into SQL Server using DuckDB and Python
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Question of the Day
Tracking All the Queries
I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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