SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….
I got some excellent questions from my 24HOP session yesterday, and when presenting the same session at NTSSUG last night. ...
2010-09-17
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CakeWrecks
Recently I had a student point me to CakeWrecks, a blog about good cakes gone bad.The post from today has...
2010-09-17
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MDX Aggregate Named Set Than Others
In this quick post I wanted to provide some code that's been useful to me recently. This MDX statement creates...
2010-09-17
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SQL Saturday #52 in Denver
Its only about a week until SQL Saturday #52 in Denver. This is an all day, free event, being held...
2010-09-17
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StreamInsight sample from my 24HOP session
As announced in my StreamInsight session at 24HOP you can download the session material
from here.
Within the next weeks I will...
2010-09-17
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The best laid plans....
I had big plans for this blog, a place to rant, a place to put cool things I discovered, a...
2010-09-17
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Thank you all for going Zero to Cube with me!
Hey there folks. I am so excited about the tremendous turnout at the 24 hours of PASS. There were so many...
2010-09-17
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T-8d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)
SQL Saturday: All the COOL kids are doing it!
It’s only twelveeight days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be...
2010-09-17
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SQLSaturday #52 – Colorado Here I Come!
Well, I’ve been waiting to book hotel and rental car for SQLSaturday #52 – Colorado because I wasn’t sure if my...
2010-09-17
357 reads
I Don't Want to Share!
I know we were taught to share in kindergarten, but there are some things that should not be shared. In...
2010-09-17
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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
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Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
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An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
In SQL Server 2025, I have a database with a Database Masker Key (DMK). I want to back up this key and keep a copy offline. When do I have to open this key before running the backup?
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