How Do Blind People Use SQL Server?
#SQLNewBlogger
I can just see people skimming that and doing a knee-jerk reaction, “What a cruel and mean title! You should...
2015-04-22
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Padding Fields for Fixed-Position Data Formats
Fixed-position data formats will seemingly be with us forever. Despite the relative ease of parsing CSV (or other delimited formats), or even XML, many data exchanges require a fixed-position...
2015-04-22
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Outlier Detection with SQL Server, part 6.1: Visual Outlier Detection with Reporting Services
By Steve Bolton
…………Most of the previous articles in this self-tutorials on using SQL Server to find outliers required us to...
2015-04-21
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What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
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What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
78 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or...
2015-04-21
42 reads
What Permissions do I need to generate a deploy script with SSDT?
It is sometimes useful to be able to use sqlpackage.exe to create a script that can be deployed manually or still automatically but at a later date plus you...
2015-04-21
12 reads
Creating a Self-Contained Multi-Subnet Test Environment, Part I – Networking
For a recent presentation on using availability groups for disaster recovery, I needed a test environment that contained multiple separate...
2015-04-21
735 reads
Excel Tip #25: Overlaying Charts
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2015-05-01 (first published: 2015-04-21)
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Speaking at IT/Dev Connections
I am very happy to announce that I will be presenting two sessions at this year’s IT/Dev Connections conference in Las Vegas!...
2015-04-21
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Blogs
Measuring RAG Solutions: Are We Retrieving the Right Information?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
Advice I Like: Lots of Ideas
By Steve Jones
“A multitude of bad ideas is necessary for one good idea” – from Excellent...
Building a DBA Agent for Your SQL Server Estate with MCP
Yesterday I gave a talk for MSSQLTips called “Building a DBA Agent for Your...
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Server-Level Row Counts for Tables and Views
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Question of the Day
Hyperscale Replicas I
What types of secondary replicas are available for the Azure SQL Database Hyperscale edition?
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