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The Problem
SQL Server is a huge product with lots of moving parts. Bugs happen. Microsoft has a place to voice...
SQL Saturday #37 - Philadelphia
Come to this great one day training event in Philadelphia, PA. SQL Saturday is a great way to get free training on all aspects of SQL Server.
Dynamically Map Column Data Based on Column Pattern Profiling
Tutorial on using Script Component, Regular Expression and derived Column Transform to dynamically map different source column types into the appropriate target column for address data.
Managing Analysis Services Deployment - Part 3
Part 3 of this series, Shahfaisal Muhammed brings a common method of deploying your SSAS projects to a new server: backup and restore. The rest of the series covers other methods.
Multiple Mirrors
Should we evolve the database mirroring technology to work with multiple mirrors? Steve Jones says this might be an interesting idea.
Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services - Sample Chapter
Learn about SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with this new title from Wiley. We have a sample chapter you can read to see if you like this book.
Development Lifecycle Deployment SSAS, SSRS, SSIS
Many companies have a very rigid development lifecycle for all products or solutions they develop. Deploying to each of these...
SQL Server Lazy Writer Issue: Warning, No Free Buffers Found
This tip is intended to help someone who is or will be facing a no free buffer found issue with the SQL Server LazyWriter. Recently, we experienced some unknown issues with our SQL Server and after inspecting the error log file we noticed the following errors: "SQL Server has encountered 50 occurrence(s) of I/O requests taking longer than 15 seconds to complete on file..." and "LazyWriter: warning, no free buffers found." These error messages were followed by a SQL Server memory dump file like SQLDump0030.mdmp in the file system.
The T-SQL Hammer
The over-reliance on a familiar tool is best described with the quote, “if all you have is hammer, everything looks...
Cleaning Up Garbage from Data
Cleaning up garbage from data can be a big problem for a developer.Check out a simple solution from Shubhajyoti Ghosh to cleaning up garbage from data.
Blogs
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
By gbargsley
One of the first things I review when I inherit a new SQL Server...
AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
By Arun Sirpal
It’s 07:43. Someone’s already left a message. “Something’s wrong with the DB server.” You...
Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
By davebem
I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
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Question of the Day
Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers