Activating Windows 8 from MSDN
I installed Windows 8 recently and needed to activate it. I didn’t do this on the install since I didn’t...
2013-02-01
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Database Lifecycle Management for Azure SQL Database
DLM 1.0 Released Today When “SQL Azure” first became available a couple of years ago, I played with it, created...
2013-02-01
1,935 reads
Querying Execution Plan XML For Inaccurate Row Count Estimates
I read this awesome post by Joe Sack, titled “Detecting Cardinality Estimate Issues with sys.dm_exec_query_stats”.
I was amazed by the beauty...
2013-01-31
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SSRS 101 – Creating a Shared Data Source
In continuation with my previous post on Creating a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Project, you will now learn how...
2013-01-31
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AD FS Token Based Authentication In Code
I’m writing this post more as documentation for myself as I know I will be repeating this process quite a...
2013-01-31
428 reads
How to find/modify SQLServer Agent logfile location?
1. To get the location of SQLServer Agent log file, the log file is called SQLAGENT.out
DECLARE @AGENT_ERRORLOG NVARCHAR(255)
EXECUTE MASTER.DBO.XP_INSTANCE_REGREAD N’HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’,
N’SOFTWAREMICROSOFTMSSQLSERVERSQLSERVERAGENT’,
N’ERRORLOGFILE’,
@AGENT_ERRORLOG...
2013-01-31
7,760 reads
Day 24 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Handling Corruption in a Clustered Index
Welcome to day 24 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. Previously, I’ve talked about several different forms of...
2013-01-31
1,858 reads
Fish and Chips, Robin Hood, SSIS, and Me
I’m going to Nottingham, England, fabled home of Robin Hood, where I’m going to eat fish and chips and talk...
2013-01-30
1,538 reads
Small changes, big effects
We got a call last week about an application that was running slowly. The server was showing about 80% CPU...
2013-01-30
1,263 reads
SQL and Skiing – SQL Saturday #183
This weekend of SQL Saturday #183 in Albuquerque, NM. It’s the first SQL Saturday in that state, and it’s a...
2013-01-30
1,498 reads
Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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