Power BI in SSRS – T-SQL Tuesday
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly event where SQL Server bloggers write a post based on a subject chosen by the...
2017-02-21 (first published: 2017-02-14)
6,951 reads
The Database Avenger
GitLab for SQL Server Projects
This is the seventh part in the series: SQL Server and Continuous Integration. This post demonstrates the use of GitLab to build...
2017-02-06 (first published: 2017-02-02)
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Forcing Parallelism – T-SQL Tuesday
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly event where SQL Server bloggers write a post based on a subject chosen by the...
2017-01-09
553 reads
ReadyRoll Development
This is the sixth part in the series: SQL Server and Continuous Integration. This post will illustrate the power of ReadyRoll when...
2017-01-03 (first published: 2016-12-23)
1,285 reads
Restoring a SQL Server backup on Linux
Last Wednesday I got very excited by Microsoft’s announcements about the addition of features to standard edition and the public preview...
2016-11-23
912 reads
SQL Server on Ubuntu
They finally did it! Finally SQL Server for Linux was announced. I’ve been waiting for this for quite a while, so...
2016-11-16
1,056 reads
Starting a ReadyRoll Project
This is part 5 in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. This post will cover the steps I follow...
2016-10-26
1,207 reads
ReadyRoll for Database Deployments
This is the 4th post in the series named SQL Server and Continuous Integration. The first 3 posts covered the need...
2016-10-03 (first published: 2016-09-21)
1,348 reads
The Non-Replicated Backup Mystery
I recently configured a backup job to run on the principal server of a mirrored pair. The idea was to backup...
2016-09-08 (first published: 2016-09-05)
2,108 reads
Visual Studio Basics for use with ReadyRoll
This is the 3rd post in the series: SQL Server and Continuous Integration. This time I’ll cover the prerequisites of using ReadyRoll...
2016-08-16
788 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
Forums
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp
hi we have to replace talend which generally was used to move files. talend's...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers