Syncing your contacts
In the same vein as my blog post about Syncing your calendars, I wanted to post how to sync your contacts...
2012-07-30
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James Serra's Blog
Visual Studio 2012 does not support BI
In the same vein as my post Watch out, Visual Studio 2010 does not support BI, Visual Studio 2012 does not...
2012-07-25
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TechEd Europe 2012 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd Europe 2012 and they are available for free! What a great...
2012-07-23
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SSRS does not require IIS
Starting with SQL Server Reporting 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS) was the removal of the Internet Information Services (IIS) dependency, so you do...
2012-07-18
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How to use LinkedIn to enhance your career
LinkedIn is a great resource to improve your career. It has definitely worked for me as the last 5-6 jobs I have...
2012-07-20 (first published: 2012-07-16)
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Microsoft PivotViewer
Microsoft PivotViewer is a really cool Silverlight web-based control that provides a visual way to interact with massive amounts of data (download)....
2012-07-11
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Blueprint for consulting riches
As a business intelligence architect consultant, I have met many people out there who are as good or better than...
2012-07-09
1,529 reads
SQL Server table partition switching
If you are using partitions in SQL Server, be aware that “partition switching” is a great feature to quickly truncate partitions...
2012-07-05
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Comparing DirectQuery and ROLAP for real-time access
In the multidimensional model in SSAS, there is a storage mode called relational OLAP (ROLAP), which is the multidimensional solution...
2012-07-02
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Microsoft Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) is a knowledge-driven data quality product that is new to SQL Server 2012. The...
2012-06-27
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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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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