Solving All Versus (Select All) SSRS End User Confusion
When developing reports that use Analysis Services as a data source end user can sometimes be confused about some of...
2010-03-12
3,695 reads
Devin Knight
Using Excel 2007 in SSIS 2005
Many companies are not in a rush to upgrade their SQL Servers because of the enormous cost to upgrade. This...
2010-03-02
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Using Database Transactions across multiple SSIS Tasks
If you experiment at all with transactions that are built into SSIS you will discover that they are highly flawed. ...
2010-03-02
2,603 reads
IntelliSense Slow to Refresh
IntelliSense in SQL Server 2008 can sometimes not be very intelligent. It’s there to help you can sometimes cause more...
2010-02-23
7,500 reads
Free Webinar Series This Week
If you haven’t heard already this week there is a great free webinar series going on that’s meant for beginners. ...
2010-02-22
631 reads
Development Lifecycle Deployment SSAS, SSRS, SSIS
Many companies have a very rigid development lifecycle for all products or solutions they develop.Deploying to each of these environments...
2010-02-17
878 reads
Development Lifecycle Deployment SSAS, SSRS, SSIS
Many companies have a very rigid development lifecycle for all products or solutions they develop. Deploying to each of these...
2010-02-17
3,933 reads
Foundation Class Review
This week was an exciting teaching week for me. I taught the Pragmatic Works Foundation class, one of my favorite...
2010-02-12
665 reads
Pragmatic Works Foundation Class Introduction
You may have noticed a flux of new blog post entires yesterday from a group of people talking about the...
2010-02-09
809 reads
SSRS Commonly Required Date Expressions
Reporting Services has many expressions that can manipulate date fields. These expressions can be used just about anywhere in SSRS...
2010-02-05
5,930 reads
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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