A Tale of Two Cities - SQLSaturday Goes Global..
It was a day of warm weather, it was a day of cold weather. A tale of two cities on...
2012-01-06
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing VMs without SA
I ran across a blog talking about Microsoft licensing, and found it very interesting. I learned a few things, and...
2012-01-06
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31 Days of SSIS in a PDF
At some point last year after finishing the 31 Days of SSIS, I decided to bundle up all of the posts...
2012-01-09 (first published: 2012-01-05)
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PASS Summit Eval – Extended Events
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I had two sessions at the PASS Summit this past year in which I...
2012-01-05
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The local farm is not accessible. Cmdlets with FeatureDependencyId are not registered.
You may fire up the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (which allows you to run PowerShell commands to do cool SharePoint...
2012-01-05
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Msg 7395: Unable to start a nested transaction
Happy new year, SQL peeps! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Last week was very quiet at work, but...
2012-01-05
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LOOP, HASH and MERGE Join Types
Today I’ll talk about the available JOIN operator types in SQL Server (Nested Loops, Hash and Merge Joins), their differences,...
2012-01-05
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SQL Server – Identifying default data directory for multiple instances through registry
This is a follow up post from a comment on my blog.
Earlier I posted about using xp_instance_regread to get default...
2012-01-10 (first published: 2012-01-05)
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Safely Restart SQL Agent with Powershell
I recently had to enable tokens in SQL Agent across about 50 instances. Unfortunately, enabling tokens requires a SQL Agent...
2012-01-05
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SSRS - Embedded Custom Code
When developing reports in Reporting Services you will often use the built-in
expression language to make report data and formatting...
2012-01-12 (first published: 2012-01-05)
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Blogs
Experimenting with CHOOSE: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I was looking over the CHOOSE() function while editing an article at SQL Server...
Fighting Procrastination?
By Brian Kelley
Here is another short video (~ 15 minutes). This is by the author of...
A Fun Prize at the PASS Data Community Summit
By Steve Jones
I had a briefing for the 2026 PASS Data Community Summit, which is just...
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SQL Server 2025 Server-level Roles
In SQL Server 2022+, what does the ##MS_DatabaseConnector## role allow?
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