Are you looking to Hadoop?
Hadoop is an interesting new software project in the Linux world that deals with large data sets. Steve Jones wonders if anyone in the SQL Server world has started working with it.
How to easily identify a scheduled Reporting Services report
In this tip I will show you an easy way to identify the scheduled Reporting Services report, so you can run that scheduled job to reproduce the reports and delivery of the reports.
SQL Server RDL Specification
In today's database reporting market, most vendor applications use a proprietary format for representing the definition of a report. In addition, vendors that provide a report execution environment usually only support their own design tools. For customers, this means that reports cannot be easily moved between different reporting implementations and that there are few options for choosing new tools that work with their existing execution environments.
Ad Hoc Queries Don’t Reuse Execution Plans: Myth or Fact
Another frequently heard story is that stored procedures get and reuse execution plans, but ad hoc queries do not. A...
Motivating the Team
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
Motivating the Team
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
Motivating the Team
It's easy to get excited if you work at a startup, or a software company. But for corporate workers that toil in IT departments all around the world, how do you keep them motivated? Steve Jones has a few thoughts about simple things that make workers feel better about their jobs.
Securing Reporting Services
Marcin Policht continues his discussion of implementing Reporting Services on SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, focusing in particular on security-related topics. This article continues this subject by describing other technologies that assist with data protection, their corresponding configuration settings, and a few authentication and authorization caveat
Custom Rounding and Truncation of Numbers in MDX
MDX applies "bankers' rounding" algorithm in its ROUND() function. This article shows you how to avoid that and round like in T-SQL and Excel.
Is Your Server Vendor Providing the Quality, Innovation, and Support You Need?
We should get help from vendors, as well as support, but what about innovation? Today's guest editorial from Brad McGeHee asks if the third party tool vendors for SQL Server are doing enough to provide value for the cost of their tools.
Blogs
VPN + SQL Server Connections: Why Long-Working Setups Suddenly Fail with Msg 10054 and “Connection Broken”
By Tim Radney
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been contacted by multiple customers experiencing the same...
Future IT Roles – Agentic Architect and AI Boom!!
By Vinay Thakur
These days everything is changing to AI World, IT roles are getting changed and...
Free Webinar about Columnstore Indexes
I’m doing a small series on indexing basics for SQL Server, and on May...
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SSoL Support on the OS
On which Linux versions is SQL Server 2025 on Linux supported?
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