Reblog: October 12 to October 18
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-19
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This December–SQL Server Consolidation and Virtualization
This December (5th - 7th) I will be presenting SQL server Consolidation and Virtualization: Hands-On for Learning Tree in New York....
2012-10-19
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A Minor Problem of Access
A colleague sent this - they received a trouble ticket where a user who had "all access" to the database couldn't...
2012-10-19
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this is what I do when I install SQL. How about you?
Whenever I install a standalone SQL instance (installing on a failover cluster adds a few more steps) on a x64...
2012-10-19
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Address Clean-up for Mail Merge using SSIS
Remember the good ol’ days of going through a list of addresses and manually cleaning up hundreds if not thousands...
2012-10-19
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MDX #19 – There is more to do to concatenate row values into column
Continuing from MDX #18 – Easy to concatenate row values into column in MDX.
I have not accomplished the goal of concatenating...
2012-10-19
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Visio 2010 Workaround: Application Hangs when opening ‘Database Model Diagram’ template
I received the following error today when attempting to use Visio’s ‘Database Model Diagram’ template under category ‘Software and Database’. The program VISIO.EXE version 14.0.6122.5000 stopped interacting with Windows...
2012-10-18
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Visio 2010 Workaround: Application Hangs when opening ‘Database Model Diagram’ template
I received the following error today when attempting to use Visio’s ‘Database Model Diagram’ template under category ‘Software and Database’.
The...
2012-10-18
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Awarded – Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2012
Today, I’ve received an email from Microsoft stating that I’ve been awarded Microsoft Community Contributor. This is the first time...
2012-10-18
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DBA Study Guide
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Hello Dear Reader, over here at Pragmatic Works we’ve been growing like weeds. For the most part we are looking...
2012-10-18
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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...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
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