Alternating Group Colors
Formatting reports can be a fun process. I personally look at myself as a Monet or Picasso when creating my...
2010-06-02
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TechUpdate Prishtina 2010, announcement
I have non-official info about the Microsoft event, and the only event, TechUpdate Prishtina, in Kosova. The event will be...
2010-06-02
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Nice Shout-Out From Brad McGehee
I was browsing Twitter today, and I noticed some retweets linking to a blog post that Brad McGehee (blog | twitter)...
2010-06-01
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T-SQL Tuesday #007: Summertime in the SQL
Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #007
New hotness
Welcome back to the blog party known as T-SQL Tuesday. I’m honored to be hosting...
2010-06-01
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PASS Summit 2010 Call for Speakers Closes Saturday, June 5
If you are planning to submit any sessions to the 2010 PASS Summit, the deadline is Saturday, June 5, 2010....
2010-06-01
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Troubleshooting Login Failed Errors on SQL Server 2008
While looking over my SQL Server Error logs, I noticed a small flurry of error messages like you see below,...
2010-06-01
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Why Would a Delete Make My Database Grow?
A while back I had a developer come to me complaining that every time they ran a large delete statement on a certain database the delete would fail with...
2010-06-01
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Why Would a Delete Make My Database Grow?
A while back I had a developer come to me complaining that every time they ran a large delete statement on a certain database the delete would fail with...
2010-06-01
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Why Would a Delete Make My Database Grow?
Introduction
A while back I had a developer come to me complaining that every time they ran a large delete statement...
2010-06-01
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PreCon Sessions at the PASS Summit
My friend Andy Leonard posted yesterday about the process of getting selected for one of the coveted slots as a...
2010-06-01
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Blogs
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Car Update: August 2026
By Steve Jones
It’s been some time since I provided a car update, so I decided to...
Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
By James Serra
An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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