I’m presenting at the PASS SQL Saturday in Chicago
I have been selected to present at the SQL Saturday in Chicago on April 13th. This works out nicely as the...
2013-02-21
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James Serra's Blog
Using Team Foundation Service
Team Foundation Service (TFS) is the “cloud” version of Team Foundation Server 2012. Up to 5 users are free, plus for a...
2013-02-19
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“DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” at the PASS Professional Development Virtual Chapter. The recording...
2013-02-14
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Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS) Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation “Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)” at the Houston Area SQL Server User Group...
2013-02-13
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“DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” Presentation
Tomorrow (Wednesday, Feb 13th) at Noon CST I will be presenting the session “DBA: Transitioning to a BI Role” at...
2013-02-12
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Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS) Presentation
Tomorrow (Tuesday, Feb 12th) at 11:30am CST, I will be presenting the session “Introduction to Microsoft’s Master Data Services (MDS)” at...
2013-02-11
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24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition videos online
On January 30, BA and BI experts took to the virtual stage for the 24 Hours of PASS: Business Analytics Edition to...
2013-02-07
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Installing Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012
My experience installing Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 to house my business intelligence projects built in Visual Studio 2010:
I am installing...
2013-02-05
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SSIS 2012: Empty toolbox?
This is an annoying problem I have had a few times: I open a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project...
2013-01-29
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Missing Data Quality Service (DQS) buttons in Excel
The Master Data Services add-in for Excel has Data Quality Services functionality to help you match data before publishing it...
2013-01-24
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Blogs
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK
Programmatic Tool Calling with the Claude SDK Every morning somebody on the team runs the...
A New Word: Mauerbauertraurigkeit
By Steve Jones
mauerbauertraurigkeit – n. inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends whose company...
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
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Why SQL Server Database Attach fails and how to repair it
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Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers