Handling Database Mirror Failover within an SSIS Package
Recently I was asked how to handle a Mirrored Database Failover within an SSIS package. For those of us that...
2010-01-07
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2009 PASS Summit Presentation Results
I opened my inbox Wednesday morning to find the evaluation results for my presentation on Transactional Replication at the 2009...
2010-01-07
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Bad Default Database Leads to a Failed Login Attempt
Yesterday we had a user receiving the infamous failed login attempt error (no, that's not a valid IP):
Login failed for...
2010-01-07
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Book Review: SQL Server 2008 Query Performance Tuning Distilled
I recently finished reading the Apress book SQL Server 2008 Performance Tuning Distilled by Grant Fritchey and Sajal Dam. I...
2010-01-07
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Too Much Data – Idiocracy or Star Trek?
I used to think that too much data was never a bad thing. That having more information out there is...
2010-01-07
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Recharging
I was hoping that 4 days in the mountains would be a nice time to recharge. Unfortunately, with my wife...
2010-01-07
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #32 in Tampa on January 23, 1010
I’ll be heading to Tampa the afternoon of the 22nd for the speaker party, and then presenting Social and Not...
2010-01-07
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Error rsAccessDenied : The permissions granted to user 'Toma-PC\Toma' are insufficient for performing this operation.
In my problem of the day, I found this one out on the Microsoft Reporting Services Forum. I bumped my head...
2010-01-07
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10 Goals For 2010
As is the traditional thing to do at the beginning of a new year I'm making goals for what I'd...
2010-01-06
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Service Broker Basics
I'm currently implementing a Service Broker solution at a client site, and it's been an interesting challenge, because there's not...
2010-01-06
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Blogs
Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego
By Steve Jones
I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I...
How To Deploy Fabric SQL and Azure SQL Databases with Azure DevOps
By ReviewMyDB
Fabric has CI/CD built in, but if you've tried to use it for database...
A New Word: Attriage
By Steve Jones
attriage – n. the state of having lost all control over how you feel...
Forums
SSRS Reminded Me of the Time Microsoft Retired TMG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SSRS Reminded Me of the...
Getting results from a Procedure to join to a query
I have a need to execute a stored procedure and return the results to...
Upgrade 2016 Standard to 2022 Express
Title pretty much says it all - can this be done? I've tried several...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT II
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37 4 NULLWhat is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 4;See possible answers