oPASS April 2010 Meeting is Tonight
Our next meeting is today, April 9, 2010, from 6-8 pm. Our featured speaker is Joe Webb and he’ll be...
2010-04-13
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PASS Update #29 (March 2010 Meeting Minutes)
The minutes from the March 2010 Board meeting were released last week and I hope you’ll review them carefully. Viewing...
2010-04-13
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Reporting Services and Windows 7 Home Premium
Ok, continuing from my post last night about the ‘Run as Administrator’ bug in SSMS, here’s the other half of...
2010-04-13
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A DMV a Day – Day 13
The DMV for Day 13 is sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats, which is described by BOL as:
Returns I/O statistics for data and log files....
2010-04-13
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T-SQL Tuesday – The Reporting Table
My T-SQL Tuesday post for April is based on Aaron Nelson’s subject of reporting. If you’re unsure of what T-SQL...
2010-04-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #005: SSIS Reporting
Automating SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) administration through PowerShell is very different than writing scripts against the core database engine....
2010-04-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #005 – Self Service Performance Information
Introduction
Today I am taking a little detour from the scripts I have been posting to take part in “T-SQL Tuesday...
2010-04-13
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Bug: Reporting Services 2K8, SSMS and Windows 7
[Edit] Since writing this, I've realized that the true reason behind this was that my account was not a member...
2010-04-12
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How Can I Tell if a Windows Login has Rights to My Server?
Introduction
Here is another utility stored procedure that I use. This stored procedure will tell you how a user has access...
2010-04-12
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Reporting Services 2008 R2 Data Bars
Last week I wrote a blog explaining how the new tool inside Reporting Services 2008 R2 called Indicator will be...
2010-04-12
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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