Expand Your Brand
There are a number of events coming up in 2010 that need speakers to share their knowledge of SQL Server with others. Check out this list and consider submitting something.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Consolidation Best Practices
This technical note describes the consolidation options, considerations, and best practices for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Analysis Services that the SQL CAT team has derived from working with Analysis Services customers. In this technical note, we also discuss an Analysis Services load balancer solution that one of our internal customers uses to load balance queries from Microsoft Excel® and SQL Server Reporting Services clients across multiple query servers to increase query performance and provide availability.
Sometimes, you have to fix it yourself
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.
Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions II
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^d') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers