Next up: #SQLSat107, HOU (and #SQLRally)
For me, conference season begins with the new year, and ends with the PASS Summit (sorry, November and December SQL...
2012-04-17
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Windows Server 2012
Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson announced today at the Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas that the next...
2012-04-17
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Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #2: Keyword compare between Oracle and SQL Server
While attending a recent Windows Azure Quick Start, the presenter, Mike Benkovich (@mbenko) happened to show a table on his...
2012-04-17
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SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6 Released
This morning, Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 CU6, which is Build 10.50.2811.0. This Cumulative Update lists 20 fixes...
2012-04-17
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Let’s Meetup [Updated]!
I have a confession to make. I like to meet people who also work with SQL Server. There are so...
2012-04-17
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TDS Endpoints: SQL Server’s “Listener”
In the land of Oracle, if you want to prevent user access to your database, you stop the listener. Without...
2012-04-17
1,759 reads
Execute T-SQL Statement Task
I spotted a new task in SSIS 2012 – Execute T-SQL Statement Task. It executes T-SQL statements, only Transact-SQL statements against...
2012-04-17
1,194 reads
Book Review: American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company
American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company ($18 at Amazon) was a good read, with...
2012-04-17
779 reads
Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 5: Power View
In part five of this on going series about choosing the right reporting tool we will discuss the newest of...
2012-04-17
1,628 reads
ColoradoSQL–April 2012
All ColoradoSQL user group meetings start at 5:30 p.m. and provide food and refreshments. There is no cost to attend...
2012-04-17
839 reads
Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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