New Year Aspirations – Christian Bolton – Author
As a former mentor Christian is used to me asking him all sorts of random questions, but this time it’s...
2013-01-29
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Clustering Concepts for the Common Man
SQL Server clusters are widely used, and widely misunderstood, which makes people like our good friend (and clustering MVP) Allan...
2013-01-29
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SSRS 101 – Creating a SQL Server Reporting Services Project
This is the second installment in this series of SQL Server Reporting Services 2012 Beginner posts. You can read the...
2013-02-07 (first published: 2013-01-29)
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How to Remove (Undo) Table Partitioning
I have seen plenty of articles and blog posts out there for how to setup and implement table partitioning, but...
2013-02-04 (first published: 2013-01-29)
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Are You A Technical Expert or Manager?
Expert or Manager? Why not both.
Are you a Technical Expert or a Manager? You certainly cannot be both.
At least that’s...
2013-01-29
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SQL Server Silent unattended installation using configuration file
1) Open Installation Wizard
Open Installation Wizard
2) Select Feature You want to install
Select Feature You want to install
3) Provide installation configuration
Provide...
2013-01-29
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Day 23 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Restoring Differential Backups With New Files
It’s day 23 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series, and today’s blog post is inspired from an email...
2013-01-29
1,586 reads
SQL Server
What is SQL Server?Microsoft SQL Server is Relational database management system (RDBMS) developed and owned by Microsoft. It is a software...
2013-01-28
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Granting Permission to Grant Permissions
I’ve never felt the need to allow this, but I saw someone ask the questions recently. Suppose you had a...
2013-02-08 (first published: 2013-01-28)
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"Auto update statistics" option on tempdb
"Auto update statistics" option is enabled by default on tempdb, if it is disabled, you may get trouble in some...
2013-01-28
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Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
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....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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