Open Source Software and Cacoëthes Scribendi
Phil Factor on the irresistible urge to write code in the public domain, and the occasional desire to be free from the snails-trail of software that needs maintainence.
TSQL Challenge 80 - Find the minimal set of intervals without gaps
The challenge is to find the minimal set of intervals without creating gaps.
Migrating SQL Reporting Services to a new server
I need to move all the objects off the 2005 Reporting Server to the 2008 Reporting Server. Is there an easy way to do this without saving each report file (edit report and save .rdl) then uploading the report to the new server? This would also mean recreating the data sources and subscriptions.
Key Storage
Today Steve Jones asks about how you secure the keys that secure your other data. Is there a good way that you've found to handle this?
Sequences in SQL Server 2012
This article describes the sequence new feature used in SQL Server 2012
Migration Guide: Migrating to SQL Server 2012 Failover Clustering and Availability Groups from Prior Clustering and Mirroring Deployments
This paper provides guidance for customers who prior to SQL Server 2012 have deployed SQL Failover Clustering for local high availability and database mirroring for disaster recovery, and who want to migrate to SQL Server AlwaysOn. It describes the corresponding SQL Server AlwaysOn scenario and the migration paths to SQL Server AlwaysOn. It also contains the important knowledge and considerations that you must know in order to successfully migrate to a HADR solution based on SQL Server AlwaysOn technology, which implements AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances for high availability and AlwaysOn Availability Groups for disaster recovery.
Transfer Times in the Cloud
Today Steve Jones talks about a problem in the cloud computing world: getting your data back.
How to Connect to a SQL Server Named Instance
My network admins have tightened down the network and while we were once able to connect to our named instances via MySQLServer\MyNamedInstance, we're now only able to connect if we specify the port. What happened and what do I need to tell them to fix the issue?
Report Customization - Level 8 in the Stairway to Reporting Services
This article discusses how to create custom functions, methods, and expressions so that you can make your data do things that Reporting Services won't!
Blogs
Prep data for AI vs. Fabric Data Agent Instructions: What Goes Where?
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10 Decisions to Make Before You Create A Fabric Workspace
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Question of the Day
Adding new column with DEFAULT II
Which number did the two COUNT(*) return:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #tmp CREATE TABLE #tmp (id INT NOT NULL) INSERT INTO #tmp (id) SELECT gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 5) AS gs ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD my_value INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 1 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1 ALTER TABLE #tmp DROP CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value ALTER TABLE #tmp ADD CONSTRAINT df_tmp_my_value DEFAULT 2 FOR my_value SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #tmp AS t WHERE my_value = 1See possible answers