SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – November 2012 update
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) has a new update:
VS 2010: new version 10.3.21101.1, September version: 10.3.20905.0, initial version: 10.3.20225.0
VS 2012: new...
2012-12-06
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James Serra's Blog
Power View for Multidimensional Models – Preview Available
Microsoft introduced an interactive data exploration, visualization and presentation experience called Power View with SQL Server 2012. Power View can only consume data...
2012-11-30
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Reasons not to upgrade to SQL Server 2012
As exciting as SQL Server 2012 is, with its multitude of new features, it’s not always possible to upgrade right...
2012-11-29
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Billing rates – other side of the fence
The following is a guest post by Tim Morgan from Sullexis in response to a resent blog of mine:
Thanks for letting...
2012-11-27
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Master Data Services Web Services API Error
In Master Data Services (MDS), I received an error when using C# code in the script task in SSIS 2012...
2012-11-20
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PASS 2012 Announcements
Some announcements and notes from the SQL PASS Summit 2012 last week (If you don’t know what PASS is, check out What is SQL...
2012-11-15
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Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation Slides
Thanks to everyone who attended my “Data Warehouse Architecture” presentation to the South Florida PASS chapter.
Here is the PowerPoint presentation: Data Warehouse...
2012-11-15
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Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance 2000
As a follow-up to my blog Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance for SQL Server 2012, Dell announced the availability of the second...
2012-11-13
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Data Warehouse Architecture Presentation
I will be presenting the session “Data Warehouse Architecture” to the South Florida PASS chapter on Wednesday, Nov 14th, at...
2012-11-12
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SSIS: Execute SQL task vs Execute T-SQL Statement task
In SSIS there are two tasks than can be used to execute SQL statements: Execute T-SQL Statement and Execute SQL....
2012-11-08
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Blogs
“We love to debate minutiae”
By Brian Kelley
I am guilty as charged. The quote was in reference to how people argue...
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Learn how to tie a bowline knot. Practice in the dark. With one hand....
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As a DevOps practitioner, I’ve always focused on performance, scalability, and automation. But as...
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Question of the Day
Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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