MDX - Color Formatting on All Measures at Once
In a post a while back I wrote about how you can create conditional color formatting on the Analysis Services...
2010-11-04
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Expression Based Interactive Sorting using Reporting Services 2008 – Part 2 Dynamic Sort By
In a previous blog written back in June, I showed you how to use the interactive sort option on a...
2010-11-04
1,852 reads
S3OLV Nov Reminder
This is a last minute reminder about the monthly S3OLV User Group meeting. It is being held on Nov. 4th, the first Thursday of the month rather than the...
2010-11-04
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S3OLV Nov Reminder
This is a last minute reminder about the monthly S3OLV User Group meeting. It is being held on Nov. 4th,...
2010-11-04
513 reads
Successful Teams: Everyone Performs
By day I'm a DBA. Nights and weekends I'm a junior high youth pastor and Awana commander. I have the...
2010-11-03
1,473 reads
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07
We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series. Today we get to talk about chapter 7 in...
2010-11-03
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Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07
We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series. Today...
2010-11-03
743 reads
SQLServerPedia Award Votes
This is just another reminder to please vote for my blog post on using PowerShell Remoting with SQL Server. It’s...
2010-11-03
576 reads
How To Participate In The PASS Summit When You Can't Be There
Bummed that you can't go to the PASS Summit in Seattle this year? Turn that frown upside down because there...
2010-11-03
689 reads
MERGE Statement Corrected, or, How to Eat Crow in Public
Better pull out the excuse-o-meter
I have no excuse, none whatsoever.
In my T-SQL Brush-Up presentation to the North Texas SQL Server...
2010-11-03
845 reads
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
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