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
2,240 reads
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
Take Time to Gain Perspective
By Brian Kelley
Probably the best piece of advice I ever received is to take time to...
The Fringe Festival
By Steve Jones
I was lucky enough to take a vacation a decade ago in Edinburgh with...
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
Forums
Fulltext filter daemon host (FDHost) process has stopped abnormally
We have performed a side-by-side upgrade, from SQL Server 2016 to 2022 Developer Edition,...
Automating OSM Data Refresh in Power BI’s Azure Maps Reference Layer
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Automating OSM Data Refresh in...
Database Mail Configuration
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Question of the Day
Database Mail Configuration
If I want to get a list of the configuration settings for Database Mail using T-SQL, how can I do so?
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