Reporting Services - Disable Loop Back Check

I have been installing and configuring SSRS since the initial release.  I have always encountered several different caveats when upgrading...

Keyboard Clash

  The SQLServerCentral servers are in the UK, and installed by UK personnel at Rackspace. We recently switched servers to Rackspace,...

The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good (Again)

I wrote an editorial for SSC back on January 19th about the perfect being the enemy of the good. It’s...

DBA.Sleep(8hrs)

I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night.  Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...

The Power Grid (No, Not THAT Power)

Yesterday I had the Adversity Index, today it’s the Power Grid from MediaIte. It attempts to score the power of...

MVP Summit Impressions From Day 1

Well, today was the opening day of the 2010 MVP Global Summit in Bellevue, WA. There were a few “side...

SSIS 2008 Script Component variable gotcha..

In a previous post I showed you how to access variables from within an SSIS script component.  More specifically I...

2010 MVP Summit Held This Week

If you can’t tell what is happening in the above photo, you won’t be alone. Today, at the opening keynote...

SQL Saturday returns to Redmond, WA

SQL Saturday returns to Redmond, WA, Saturday, June 12, 2010, in the Microsoft Commons.

I have submitted 2 proposals for presentations,...

SSIS 2008 Script Component variable gotcha..

In a previous post I showed you how to access variables from within an SSIS script component.  More specifically I...