SQL Server Training in 2013

Unbelievably it is December already and 2013 is fast approaching. With the Christmas break fast approaching now is the time...

OT: Space Exploration and the Future of Humanity

I am old enough to remember watching the Apollo 11 landing in 1969 as a young child. Before and after...

Management Studio Database Diagram Owners

If you're working in an environment as a developer without sysadmin privileges, and you are creating database diagrams using Management Studio...

MDX #22 – What to use for explicit sorting on dimensions

I often think that I am lucky to work in a profession that I enjoy very much. It makes everything...

Why SQL Server security matters: A case study

Database technologies are an essential component of many information systems because they store a large amount of sensitive corporate data...

XML Support and SQL Server

Checkout my article here, in which I discussed the fundamentals of XML technologies.
This article is published on SSWUG.org.

Planning for ETL solution

Checkout my article here, in which I talked about the basic steps that are requried to plan an successful ETL...

Katie and Emil come back

We are back on SQL Server Central... This is our first post after a while; also a test to see...

SQL Server Consulting Blog–Saturday Stats 1st Dec 2012

This post is little experiment I’m trying out this weekend. The SQL Server Consulting blog has been up and running...

PowerPivot for Excel "Not loaded. The Managed Add-in Loader failed to initialize."

Error when trying to enable the PowerPivot for Excel add-in for Office 2010 reads:

"Not loaded.  The Managed Add-in Loader failed...