Surface: Standard Onscreen Keyboard
If you feel that the default on-screen keyboard on the Surface RT isn't sufficient, you can enable what I would...
2012-11-19
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New York City .NET
SQL in the City - New York 2012
I was able to attend the SQL in the City event in New York this past Friday. I highly recommend...
2012-10-01
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PowerShell: Redirecting Console Output and Error Output to a Variable and E-mailing it
I recently had the need to script the execution of a command-line utility and thought it would be a good...
2012-08-29 (first published: 2012-08-28)
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Fix: Crystal Reports Shows Red X Across Entire Page When Report Run Inside Visual Studio
I was googling (with Bing AND Google) like crazy for a solution to this, but didn't find one from any...
2012-08-14
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Enabling "Open Project Folder" for project types that don't support it
One annoying thing about SSIS (2008) and some of the other project types in Visual Studio is the lack of...
2012-07-18
757 reads
A Pattern for PIVOT
Use of the PIVOT operator in T-SQL has always been tantalizing yet confounding to me. It offers the promise of...
2012-07-08
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Excellent SSIS 2012 Upgrade Video
This presentation gives an excellent overview of the process of upgrading SQL Server 2008 SSIS packages to work with SQL...
2012-06-24
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Another Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
There was a great deal of feedback to my previous post One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From...
2012-05-15
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One Way To Insert Many Rows Very Fast From Your .NET Application
This is my attempt to explain something that I have wanted to figure out for a long time. I have...
2012-05-15 (first published: 2012-05-11)
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One Way to Work Around the .NET Setup Project’s Picky Version Number Behavior
If you don’t change the version number of your .NET project output every time you create a setup package, you...
2012-05-10
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
Forums
How do I connect to a SQL Server database on my ISP?
I've got a web application for my side business. I've added a SQL Server...
Looking for New Blood
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Server-Level Row Counts for Tables and Views
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Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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