Download Attachments from Exchange Web Services using SSIS
I recently worked on an engagement where the requirement was to process excel spreadsheets sent to a group mailbox hosted...
2016-03-11
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Download Attachments from Exchange Web Services using SSIS
I recently worked on an engagement where the requirement was to process excel spreadsheets sent to a group mailbox hosted...
2016-03-11
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Bitwise XOR in DAX
In T-SQL and other languages we have bitwise XOR natively supported; the T-SQL operator is simply ^. Here’s the explanation of...
2015-10-08 (first published: 2015-09-29)
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Automated Metadata Report for SSAS Tabular
There’s been an excellent free solution for documenting SSAS metadata in multi-dimensional models for quite some time: http://www.purplefrogsystems.com/blog/2010/09/olap-cube-documentation-in-ssrs-part-1/.
I had the...
2015-09-09
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Migrating SQL Agent Jobs with Schedules using T-SQL
I’ve seen many a blog post about migrating SQL Agent jobs across instances using PowerShell, SMO, T-SQL, and the like....
2015-05-26
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Synchronizing Read / Write SQL Agent Jobs Across AlwaysOn Replicas
Intro
AlwaysOn availability groups are a powerful enhancement to SQLServer HA, and offer many improvements over older database synchronization techniques like...
2015-05-15 (first published: 2015-05-05)
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Automated Restore Script Output for Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution
Intro
This blog post is designed to be useful to two different audiences:
Those implementing Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution for the first timeThose...
2015-04-16
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Delete unused SQL Agent jobs from instance
I recently worked on a project where the client requested to “remove all of the unused jobs” that had been...
2015-04-09 (first published: 2015-04-01)
8,505 reads
Consolidating time series metadata for users in Tabular
Background
DAX offers many powerful time intelligence functions that can be applied at virtually any level of a date / time hierarchy....
2015-02-13 (first published: 2015-02-04)
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SSRS SharePoint Integrated Mode – Report Server URL
This is a short, but hopefully sweet post for someone, whom, like me, might have had to end up spending...
2014-12-03
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Escaping Strings
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Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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